"thunder" wrote in message

.... As for the High Crimes test, in 1972, when Nixon
claimed he had the power to wiretap, the Supreme Court unanimously
rejected that notion.

Richard Nixon was conducting wiretap operations solely for the strengthening
of his political position. Surely you see the difference.

....Wiretapping Americans, without a warrant, puts the
President clearly at odds with the will of Congress.

Presidents are almost always at odds with the will of Congress. The
important question is whether the Prsident's actions are at odds with the
words of existing statutes.

As impeachment
proceedings are political, the point is probably moot, but a
Constitutional crisis does meet the High Crimes and Misdemeanors test.

I think you need a bit more specificity than your interpretation of "...a
Constitutional crisis..." in order to bring an impeachment proceeding
forward. Also note that the word 'misdemeanor' is written in the US
Constitution with a lower case m. The reference of the time was not to any
class of offence, as might be interpreted today, but to unseemly, generally
bad behavior that might serve to put the USA in a position of ridicule or
humiliation. Twas the misdemeanor that got so many implacably on the trail
of Pres Clinton. The almost ceaseless lying and arrogance was the hook they
hung their coat on.