Impeachment: A Handbook, New Edition

By Charles L. Black Jr., Philip Bobbitt

Categories: Law, Politics & Social Sciences

Impeachment: A Handbook, New Edition (2018) updates Charles L. Black Jr.'s 1974 guide to constitutional standards for impeachment, with new material by Philip Bobbitt. Black's short handbook, written during Watergate, set out how the impeachment clause works and what counts as high crimes and misdemeanors. Bobbitt adds later cases and arguments so readers can apply the same framework beyond the Nixon era.

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• Fareed Zakaria: “My book of the week is impeachment, a handbook by Charles Black. This brief book really just an essay, was written by a Law Professor during Nixon's downfall but is the best guide for the layperson mixing deep constitutional knowledge be common sense. My favorite example of the latter is when explaining why something that is not technically a crime could still be an impeachable offense, Black explains that if the President were to move to Saudi Arabia so he could have four wives, and what it proposed to conduct the office of the Presidency by male and wireless from there this would not be a crime provided his passport were in order, but it would surely be grounds for impeachment.”