Updated at 9:43 p.m. ET
Congress has the power to impeach and remove a president over conduct that may not violate black-letter law — and President Trump’s actions qualify, House Democratic impeachment managers argued Thursday.
The Constitution doesn’t specify that a president must technically have broken a law in order to be impeached, said Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., although Democrats also underscored that Trump did break at least one law in the Ukraine affair.
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