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As a former attorney, it deeply offends me. There is an ethical duty to promote the law and educate the public on legal issues. It is unethical to misinform them.

There is simply no basis in the law or history for Yoo’s claims. Quite the opposite, in fact. And it’s no excuse that he isn’t in a court of law. He is making a legal argument for the obvious purpose of carrying Republican water.

The legal profession has enough problems without blatant ideological prostitution. But then, prostitution in the service of executive overreach is nothing new for Yoo. It was an outrage when UC Berkeley gave him his current sinecure. This is further proof of that mistake.

Well, Yoo wasn’t actually interpreting the constitution, or actually making any kind of legal argument. He is just misrepresenting history to push for a “we should just let the voters decide” argument. Except, he conveniently leaves out how the voters can’t supeona witnesses or records to determine if Trump committed an impeachable offense.

Such predictable intellectual sloth from Fox “News” is no different than learning about Darwin from Yale Computer Scientist David Gelernter, learning about intersectionality from John MacArthur, learning about dating from Joshua Harris, or learning about honesty from Ravi Zacharias. Someday Fox and their Evangelicals will need to face some hard truths, as truth always prevails, no matter how politically incorrect it is.

I think it is clear, from recent events, that most people prefer to look to the next election as the way to solve these kinds of problems. There was considerable reluctance to start an impeachment inquiry. And I think that’s appropriate.

But what if the offense involves the attempt to steal the election. Based on your presentation, it looks as if that was one of the concerns of the founders. And in the current impeachment inquiry, that is indeed a major concern. The support for impeachment has increased because of exactly this kind of issue.

It is time to appreciate the thoughtfulness that was put into designing our constitution

“One objection against Electors was the danger of their being corrupted by the candidates, and this furnished a peculiar reason in favor of impeachments whilst in office. Shall the man who has practised corruption, and by that means procured his appointment in the first instance, be suffered to escape punishment by repeating his guilt?”