{"id":10738,"date":"2017-04-12T19:26:30","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T01:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=10738"},"modified":"2017-05-28T17:49:31","modified_gmt":"2017-05-28T23:49:31","slug":"harvard-law-prof-trump-could-be-impeached-over-fake-news-accusations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/harvard-law-prof-trump-could-be-impeached-over-fake-news-accusations\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvard Law Prof: Trump could be impeached over \u201cfake news\u201d accusations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style='float: left; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; width: 250px;' src=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/justice11.jpg\" data-wp-pid=\"11596\" alt=\"impeach trump\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"7\" \/><b>QZ<\/b>\u00a0&#8211; It\u2019s no secret that little love is lost between US president Donald Trump and the mainstream American press. CNN, BuzzFeed, The New York Times, Vanity Fair\u2014few big-name titles have escaped the wrath of the Donald, who, measurably more so than his predecessors, is acutely sensitive to criticism lobbed from the Fourth Estate.<br \/>\n\u201cFake news\u201d has become the go-to dismissal of any story even vaguely inquisitive into White House operations, strategy, or motive. And although, on its face, it\u2019s a transparently juvenile tactic, one legal expert thinks it could come back to bite our thin-skinned commander-in-chief.<\/p>\n<p>But the rhetoric, of late, has veered into more seriously concerning waters. On Feb. 17, little less than a month after taking office, president Trump unilaterally declared the mainstream media a collective \u201cenemy of the American people.\u201d<br \/>\nJoining Slate\u2019s Jacob Weisberg for his \u201cTrumpcast\u201d podcast on Apr. 11, Harvard Law School professor Noah Feldman suggested that the president could potentially face impeachment for his \u201csubtle, careful, slow undercutting of press freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The FAKE NEWS media (failing <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nytimes\">@nytimes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCNews\">@NBCNews<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABC\">@ABC<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBS\">@CBS<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNN\">@CNN<\/a>) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/832708293516632065\">February 17, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nThis might be mystifying to anyone familiar with how impeachment, in the US system, actually works. Under Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution, a president may be impeached for \u201ctreason, bribery and other high crimes and misdemeanors.\u201d As of now, it is no high crime or misdemeanor (or even a low to middling crime) to complain on Twitter, however childishly, about critical press coverage of oneself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not talking about criminalizing the president\u2019s actions,\u201d Feldman counters. \u201cI\u2019m talking about holding him accountable, and holding him accountable under the rubric of impeachment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And indeed, he has some legal scholarship on his side. Constitutional lawyer and historian Kevin R. C. Gutzman argues that \u201chigh crimes and misdemeanors\u201d should be understood in the lingo of the era in which it was written, with respect to 18th century English parliamentary law. Impeachment does not hinge on commission of classifiable crimes, he argues, but violation of \u201cgrave matters of state,\u201d i.e., abuses of power, under which purposeful manipulation of the press arguably fall.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 140%; font-weight: 500;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/956912\/could-trump-be-impeached-over-fake-news-accusations-this-harvard-law-professor-thinks-so\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QZ\u00a0&#8211; It\u2019s no secret that little love is lost between US president Donald Trump and the mainstream American press. CNN, BuzzFeed, The New York Times, Vanity Fair\u2014few big-name titles have escaped the wrath of the Donald, who, measurably more so than his predecessors, is acutely sensitive to criticism lobbed from the Fourth Estate. \u201cFake news\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2312,"featured_media":11596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[125,124,76,123,107,127,126,106,105,77],"class_list":["post-10738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-impeachment-evidence","tag-calltoaction","tag-dumptrump","tag-impeach","tag-impeachtrump","tag-muslimban","tag-nofascistusa","tag-potus","tag-resist","tag-theresistance","tag-trump"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Harvard Law Prof: Trump could be impeached over \u201cfake news\u201d accusations &#8226; 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