A criminal case under 18 U.S.C § 2071 based on the removal, concealment or destruction of documents. A criminal statute outlaws the removal or destruction of documents from any public office. The penalty is up to three years in prison and disqualification from holding office.
Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe has written that “holding Trump accountable – and disqualifying him from future office – would not be a partisan act, but one needed to preserve the republic.”
Sure, they said it, but like much of what the left says, they were 100% wrong. No law merely passed by Congress can overrule the explicit rules established in the Constitution, which say that only an impeachment conviction, rather than a standard criminal conviction, can disqualify one from the office of President.