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Crime required for impeachment? Not so, say legal experts

by Associated Press
| January 22, 2020 9:35 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's defense relies in part on arguments made in the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson more than 150 years ago: that impeachment requires a crime.

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