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SFGate<\/b> – Northwestern University Law Professor Steven Calabresi served in two Republican administrations, was an adviser to Attorney General Edwin Meese under Ronald Reagan and wrote speeches for Vice President Dan Quayle. He is co-founder and board chairman of the conservative Federalist Society.
\nSo it raised a few eyebrows when Calabresi told a law school audience in San Francisco that when it comes to Donald Trump, \u201cimpeachment needs to be on the table.\u201d
\nEven though both houses of Congress will be controlled by his fellow Republicans, Trump, a party outsider, will be \u201con a short leash. There could be a spectacular end,\u201d Calabresi said in a recent panel at the annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools.
\nCalabresi was a law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and another prominent conservative, Appeals Court Judge Robert Bork, and served in the Justice Department under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.
\nIn the Reagan administration, he was an influential advocate of expanded presidential power and the use of \u201csigning statements\u201d declaring a president\u2019s intention to disregard portions of a newly signed law. That became common under President George W. Bush.<\/p>\n

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