Conservative legal types, like some of the professors I had in law school, have been whining ever since FDR’s New Deal about liberals who dare to suggest that the meaning of the Constitution changes with the times. Conservatives claim to be “strict constructionists” whose sole job it is to determine the “original intent” of the framers of the Constitution. What would Jefferson have thought of Facebook? How would George Washington have regulated the airlines? What did Ben Franklin intend about fracking? How to handle the antics of a President who lied about an affair with a lady? According to conservatives all the answers are there in the words and writings of the folks who met in Philadelphia in 1789.
If there is ANYTHING the founders understood it was the pernicious effects of foreign governments in US politics. Can anyone doubt that if President Adams had opened a Grand Tavern and Boardinghouse on Pennsylvania Avenue in the capitol city and insisted that foreign diplomats stay there, that the President was violating the emoulments clause of the Consitiution? If President Jefferson had asked Emperor Napolean of France for dirt on his rival John Adams (who had been a diplomat in France) can anyone doubt that Jefferson would have been impeached? In the early years of the Republic the governments of Spain, France and the UK employed spies and bribes to influence events. The Founding fathers were acutely aware of the necessity to shield the young country from the designs of European monarchs.
No conservative legal scholar can argue against Impeaching Trump. The hypocrites in the Federalist Society will tie themselves in knots to defend the President. As usual, they are wrong and the likes of James Madison and Alexander Hamilton would be the first to step forward to rid the Republic of traitor Donald Trump.