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“In this year’s race, a non-choice ignores Trump’s singular unfitness for office,” Greene wrote, “demonstrated time and again through his dishonesty, his false claims to have won the 2020 election, his criminal convictions, his impeachable offenses, his race-baiting, his threats of retaliation against his opponents, and many other features that make him a danger to the nation.”

“It is not necessary for the House of Representatives to show that the dealings involved a quid pro quo to rise to the level of an impeachable offense,” the report reads.

I responded, first, that despite two failures to convict, neither Trump case was a mere partisan exercise because both involved impeachable “high crimes and misdemeanors,” and second, that I hoped neither party would initiate a cycle of constitutionally groundless tit-for-tat impeachments.

But, at least if precedent is to be a guide, that alone is not an impeachable instance of treason, bribery, or other high crime or misdemeanor.

The first two articles raise different aspects of a single question: Is it an impeachable offense for a judge to benefit financially from his own or a spouse’s association with representatives of an ideological and political movement?