Trump presidency inspires wave of books on impeachment

More than 40 years after working on the impeachment of Richard Nixon, former Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman is back on the case.

This time, it's with a book: "The Case for Impeaching Trump." "The book really forced me to think this through," Holtzman, a New York Democrat and member of the House Judiciary Committee in 1974, said during a recent telephone interview.

"There's so much news every day being thrown at you that it's hard to separate it all out. When I did, it became clear there was a basis for proclaiming the president had committed high crimes and misdemeanours."
There has never been a consensus for what merits impeachment, although then-Rep Gerald Ford may have had the most realistic answer when in 1970 he declared that "An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history."
Article Two, Section Four of the Constitution states that "The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors."