Abstract
Kinkopf believes that the House of Representatives' decision to impeach Pres Clinton on the charge that he committed perjury before the grand jury, a charge that did not involve official conduct, was proper. Even though Pres Clinton's misconduct was not a proper basis for impeachment or conviction, his case demonstrates that if would be terribly unwise to understand official misconduct to be a necessary element of a high crime or misdemeanor.
Citation
Neil Kinkopf,
The Scope of “High Crimes and Misdemeanors” After the Impeachment of President Clinton,
63 Law and Contemporary Problems
201-222
(Winter 2000)
Available at: https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/lcp/vol63/iss1/9