{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://clayhiggins.house.gov/2023/10/02/icymi-higgins-lays-foundation-impeachment-president-biden/", "ICYMI: Higgins Lays the Foundation for Impeachment of President Biden", "2023-10-02", "2023", "2023-10", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Clay Higgins", "H001077", "clayhiggins.house.gov", "clayhiggins", "https://clayhiggins.house.gov/category/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA) joined the Oversight Committee in investigating the Impeachment of President Biden.\n\nOver the past year, the committee has investigated the Biden family\u2019s domestic and international business dealings to determine if these activities have compromised U.S. national security and Biden\u2019s ability to lead with impartiality.\n\nClick here or the image above to watch.\n\nCongressman Higgins\u2019 remarks and questioning below:\n\nCongressman Clay Higgins\n\nThank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Turley. Professor, we\u2019re gonna be moving quickly here. Let us retract from the absurdities of 21st-century Twitter. Let\u2019s go back to 1787, shall we.\n\nArticle Two, Section Four: the President, Vice President, and all civil officers of the United States shall be removed from office on impeachment for and conviction of treason, bribery, and other high crimes and misdemeanors.\n\nHigh crimes and misdemeanors is not, and never has been limited to indictable criminality. Mr. Turley, Professor, please tell us briefly, sir, what was the actual meaning in 1787 of high crimes and misdemeanors?\n\nProfessor Jonathan Turley\n\nWell, this has been a matter of obviously robust debate for many decades. What we do know is that there were various terms that were offered and were rejected.\n\nThe most famous being maladministration and James Madison was uncomfortable with that. But they were also uncomfortable with limiting it to like treason and bribery.\n\nCongressman Clay Higgins\n\nExactly. It was never designed to be limited by writ of statute. Was it professor? Would Madison argue that quote-unquote, \u201cbetrayal of trust to foreign powers is an impeachable offense?\u201d\n\nProfessor Jonathan Turley\n\nThere are references into that type of betrayal of trust. But also, if you take a look at past impeachments, they have gone to the violation of public trust, including the use of office to perpetuate false accounts or to obstruct this body.\n\nCongressman Clay Higgins\n\nAgreed. So impeachment is a mechanism of our congressional authority is not a criminal proceeding, is a professor?\n\nProfessor Jonathan Turley\n\nit\u2019s not. What I\u2019ve said previously is that I happen to believe you should start with the Criminal Code and look at things that would be crimes for others because those resonate the most in turn.\n\nCongressman Clay Higgins\n\nThose criminal code violations would be revealed through the investigative effort of the congressional endeavor to inquire into impeachable offenses like this hearing, would you agree?\n\nProfessor Jonathan Turley\n\nThat\u2019s right.\n\n\u2026.\n\nCongressman Clay Higgins\n\nMr. Turley based upon the constitutional parameters of the House of Representatives. Do you agree that our Oversight Committee, Judiciary Committee, and Ways and Means Committee should be judiciously investigating reasonable suspicion of impeachable actions by President Joe Biden?\n\nProfessor Jonathan Turley\n\nI do. I think it is your duty to get answers to these questions and to see if the President was involved in what I think is a confirmed corrupt influence-peddling effort.\n\nCongressman Clay Higgins", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T00:49:26Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://clayhiggins.house.gov/2023/10/02/icymi-higgins-lays-foundation-impeachment-president-biden/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9042574092745781, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}