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    @einpoklum-reinstateMonica Almost all impeachments in the US have been of federal judges. This answer might be a little clearer with some formatting (this appears to be a semicolon separated list of what each impeached individual was charged with) and a citation/link for said list (I'm pretty sure it's on Wikipedia). Commented Nov 25, 2019 at 8:11
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    Accepted, because "abuse of power" is a wide net, and the phrase is also vague. It could probably be applied - more or less justly - to the scenario I described.
    – einpoklum
    Commented Nov 27, 2019 at 0:27
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    "making false financial disclosures" - would those include ones that get your charity shut down and fined bigly; or paying off porn starts to help your election campaign? Sounds like someone is impeaching up the wrong tree :-)
    – Mawg
    Commented Nov 27, 2019 at 8:08
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    @Mawg: Again, that's relevant to Trump, but not to the scenario I described above. Indeed, there are multiple causes for potential impeachment for Trump (some even stronger than the ones you suggested), but this is what the Democratic party leadership is focusing on.
    – einpoklum
    Commented Nov 27, 2019 at 13:42
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    It does if you are paying for their silence during a campaign, to avoid yet more bad publicity after recordings of you saying that you grab women by the pussy have just aired.
    – Mawg
    Commented Nov 30, 2019 at 8:30