(CNN) Politics is history in the present tense -- and that was definitely true at the House impeachment hearings. Professor Jonathan Turley was a Republican witness and he also testified in Bill Clinton's 1998 impeachment. But it's important to understand that Professor Turley was a strenuous advocate for the impeachment of former President Clinton while he now opposes the impeachment of President Trump, saying this"I am concerned about lowering impeachment standards ... Let's take a step back and look at what Mr. Turley's favorite founder James Madison said during the constitutional convention about the intent of impeachment. Five years ago, Turley wrote: "there is a real crisis in how our system is changing with the rise of the uber-presidency."

Source: CNN December 05, 2019 22:28 UTC