“Nothing in the Bolton revelations, even if true, would rise to the level of an abuse of power or an impeachable offense,” Alan Dershowitz told the senators. Like Starr, Dershowitz made an argument that conflicted with his position from two decades earlier. He maintained that impeachment required a statutory crime, not something abstract and undefined like “abuse of power”—the opposite of what he contended during the Clinton impeachment, when he said a “technical crime” was not required. Dershowitz went even further into the constitutional netherworld by arguing that even if Trump’s action
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