The House Judiciary Committee released a report Saturday geared toward defining what the Constitution's framers considered an impeachable defense.The report comes after four legal experts testified about the subject Wednesday in the committee's initial hearing in President Trump's impeachment inquiry. The report, which traces impeachment's origins to monarchical
England, doesn't conclude that Trump should be impeached, although Judiciary Committee Chair Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) didn't mince words when announcing its release.
Ultimately, though, the committee is leaving that decision up to the House as a whole. Still, there's seemingly some hints at what articles of impeachment — which House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi (D-N.Y.) asked committee chairs to draft — might look like.
Trump appears to have heard about the report and was quick as always to argue over
Twitter that he was putting the U.S., not himself, first in his dealings with Ukraine.