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TexasTowelie

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Sat Dec 24, 2016, 05:48 AM Dec 2016

Kris Kobach once argued bad behavior was an impeachable offense

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach visited Trump Tower on Thursday (December 15). Kobach previously met with Trump in November, entering the president-elect's golf club in New Jersey with the first page of his vision for the Department of Homeland Security left visible.

No one will be surprised if Kobach is tapped for a job the new administration. One potential irony of Kobach going to work for a post-truth regime is his previously stated belief that misleading the public is an impeachable offense.

In 1998, as a law professor at UMKC, Kobach opined on what the framers of the Constitution felt about impeachment. The piece was published in The Kansas City Star one month after Kenneth Starr released his investigation of President Bill Clinton that led to impeachment proceedings.

Kobach took the position that presidents did not have to commit crimes to be impeached. He noted that the framers had borrowed the term "high crimes and misdemeanors'' from the English.

Read more: http://www.pitch.com/news/blog/20847100/kris-kobach-once-argued-bad-behavior-was-an-impeachable-offense

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