[Pearls Before Swine]

You don’t need an indictment for impeachment. All you need is the votes.

[sourcery]

Just because the President can pardon himself does not mean he can’t be indicted. There’s nothing else in the Constitution that comes anywhere close to forbidding it. It’s absurd to interpret the Constitution as creating a class of nobility that’s above the law.

[ModelBreaker]

Interesting that they (Mueller, CNN, ABC, NYT . . . ) spun their wheels for two years and that memo has existed the entire time. There is no point for a prosecutor if there can’t be an indictment. That’s what prosecutors do.

So this was all about the drip drip drip and to see if they could dig up something (under the pretense of indictment) that would impeach.

[USCG SimTech]

We knew this when the Clinton impeachment process was happening. Prez Clinton volunteered to testify, we knew then he was not required by any law to testify. He mistakenly did so, lied under oath, got impeached by not convicted by the Senate.

[frank ballenger]

Exactly.

You actually eliminated the need for hours and hours of debate on websites and radio.

Great job.

[Cheerio]

You don’t need an indictment for impeachment. All you need is the votes.

AND apparently the thinking in 2018 is that there is no requirement for a "High crimes and misdemeanors"

High crimes and misdemeanors, however, is an undefined and indefinite phrase, which, in England, had comprehended conduct not constituting indictable offenses.