High crimes and misdemeanors? We don’t need no stinkin’ high crimes and misdemeanors!

Such is the takeaway from anAxiosreport Friday regarding a “cohort of resistance-minded House Democrats” that wants impeachment of President Donald Trump on Day 1 if the party retakes the House in the November midterms.

Between the Republicans’ current razor-thin majority, redistricting battles and the usual headwinds faced by the incumbent party, the odds are stacked against the GOP keeping the House of Representatives.

As of right now, Republicans hold 217 seats with one independent caucusing with them, while the Democrats have 212. Five seats are vacant.

A mere majority vote is needed for impeachment. In olden times, however — when these things were taken seriously — there were hearings and in-depth debates about the gravity of doing such a thing, particularly when the bar for conviction is two-thirds of the Senate.

The Constitution’s language about impeachment covers a multitude of sins — “Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.” But convincing a super-majority of the Senate — not to mention normal, sane Americans — that Trump has committed any of them would be a stretch.

At this point, however, I’m going to assume that the Democrats wouldimpeach Trumpfor the unpardonable sin of not crying at the end of “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.”

While the call for “impeachment first, reason later” is coming from the more aggressive part of the Democratic caucus, the Axios report underlines what a Democrat-controlled House would look like come next year.

“The mere existence of this movement demonstrates just how much pressure lawmakers who have not yet gotten on board with impeachment will face in January of 2027,” the outlet reported.

“This is something that I keep saying to our leadership … we need to have a very concrete, coordinated strategy,” Rep. Delia Ramirez, an Illinois Democrat, told the news outlet. She added that the party should “build up the case so that when we are in power in January, we’ve created the conditions … we’ve done the fact-checking, we’ve done the shadow hearings, everything we need to be able to impeach.”

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