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Impeachment is a political act.
Mr. Everet misunderstands what impeachment is. It is a political act couched in judicial form for which the only punishment is removal from office. Any crimes committed would be dealt with later by the courts. Ironically, the courts would extend to the perpetrators the very protections they (the perpetrators) deny to others. When Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon it freed Nixon from the possibility of a trial. As a footnote, the reality is that the "high crimes and misdeameanors" is pretty much anything that Congress says it is.