Book contents
- High Crimes and Misdemeanors
- High Crimes and Misdemeanors
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 How to Interpret the Constitution’s Impeachment Clauses
- 2 British Impeachments, 1376–1787
- 3 American Impeachments before 1787
- 4 The Founders’ Impeachment
- 5 Impeaching Legislators and Lesser Executive Branch Officials
- 6 Impeachment of Judges
- 7 The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
- 8 The Fall of President Richard Nixon
- 9 The Strange Case of William Jefferson Clinton
- 10 The Scope of Impeachable Presidential Conduct: General Principles
- 11 Impeachment for Obstruction of Justice
- 12 Impeachment for Abuse of the Pardon Power
- 13 Impeachment for Lying
- 14 Impeachment for Corruption: Schemes of Peculation, the Emoluments Clauses, and the Avaricious President
- 15 The Twenty-fifth Amendment as an Alternative to Impeachment
- 16 Impeaching Donald Trump
- Appendix: United States Impeachments, 1789 to Present
- Notes
- Index
13 - Impeachment for Lying
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 July 2019
- High Crimes and Misdemeanors
- High Crimes and Misdemeanors
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 How to Interpret the Constitution’s Impeachment Clauses
- 2 British Impeachments, 1376–1787
- 3 American Impeachments before 1787
- 4 The Founders’ Impeachment
- 5 Impeaching Legislators and Lesser Executive Branch Officials
- 6 Impeachment of Judges
- 7 The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
- 8 The Fall of President Richard Nixon
- 9 The Strange Case of William Jefferson Clinton
- 10 The Scope of Impeachable Presidential Conduct: General Principles
- 11 Impeachment for Obstruction of Justice
- 12 Impeachment for Abuse of the Pardon Power
- 13 Impeachment for Lying
- 14 Impeachment for Corruption: Schemes of Peculation, the Emoluments Clauses, and the Avaricious President
- 15 The Twenty-fifth Amendment as an Alternative to Impeachment
- 16 Impeaching Donald Trump
- Appendix: United States Impeachments, 1789 to Present
- Notes
- Index
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- High Crimes and MisdemeanorsA History of Impeachment for the Age of Trump, pp. 267 - 276Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019