Most legal experts say crime not required for impeachment
(World News USA)

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. But most legal scholars disagree, including a law professor called by Republicans in the House investigation to argue against impeaching Trump. In 1868 a lawyer for Johnson argued in his opening statement to the Senate that Johnson could not be removed from office because he was not guilty of a crime. Johnson was acquitted by a single vote. One of Trump`s lawyers, Alan Dershowitz, cited the same argument - that impeachment requires criminal-like - in his constitutional defense of the president. The...