(12-18-2019, 12:49 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(12-18-2019, 12:19 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote: Well, yeah. We've all known the Dems would find a way to somehow get to this since Election Day.

No, we've known since 1991 that the Donald lacked the integrity sufficient to serve in public trust while avoiding the appearance of evil.
The original meaning of the term "misdemeanor" as Last42min has taught us, is roughly "bad appearances in public".
So yes this was inevitable, but not for the reason you say.

So ... everyone then?

Also, Hamilton worried that it'd be used on the basis of political differences than by innocence or guilt. I haven't read that the original meaning of misdemeanor was simply a 'bad appearance', but Samuel Johnson's dictionary said, in 1755, that it was an 'offence' or 'ill behavior' lesser than an 'atrocious crime'. While 'ill behavior' would indicate a low threshold on its own, when it's compared to an 'atrocious crime', it implies that it's a crime of lesser significance and not just 'behavior'.

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