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He pulled Formosus out of his tomb, propped him up in court, and convicted him of variety of violations of canon law. As I said in both the Clinton and Trump impeachment hearings, the House is under a duty to impeach if it believes that a president has committed a high crime and misdemeanor. There is another path.
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