Prof’s Warning to Dems: Don’t Lower Impeach Bar
• The Post has performed a public service with its display of law professor Jonathan Turley’s remarks before the House Judiciary Committee (“‘Not how a US prez should be impeached,’ ” Dec. 6).
I am an independent centrist, no fan of this president, and live in a bluer-than-blue city, but I agree with many parts of Turley’s argument, especially his views on “partisan anger” and a “rush to judgment.”
I wish most of my friends and family would have a chance to read sensible, civil arguments such as Turley’s. If only they’d be willing to step out of their comfort zones, they just might have something to think about. Jonathan Cohen Brookline, Mass.
• As an 80-year-old American who attended St. John’s School of Law and is now a retired member of the New York State Bar, I write to highly commend Professor Turley and his statement.
I do so because, by his own words, he does not politically support the president, and in fact voted against him.
During my four years at St. John’s, what immediately comes to mind is how each and every professor stressed how wrong it would be to purposely try to corrupt the law for a personal agenda. The good professor knows this.
Is it not obvious that today’s Democrats, especially those sitting in the House, are doing just that? Lee A. Delia Northport
• The Post’s excellent editorial echoes what a majority of people in this country believe: This is a sham impeachment, and it is not Trump who is abusing power, but Nancy Pelosi and her cohorts in Congress.
In his testimony before the Judiciary Committee, Turley stated emphatically that it was Congress who was abusing their power by proceeding with no facts to back up their articles of impeachment. Everything is based on hearsay and presumptions. Richard A. Ketay Newark, NJ
• Turley was a breath of fresh air while speaking to the circus known as the House Judiciary Committee.
His evenhanded lecture on the significance of impeachment and the current drive by Democrats to oust a “duly elected” president was spot-on.
Unfortunately, the good professor’s commonsense and impartial views, which are lacking in our nation’s capital, will not be enough to stop this train wreck. Peter Kelly Hazlet, NJ