What is a High Crime??? If committing a High Crime is an Impeachable offense, should Americans know what it is

Question

I don't see any public debate to this Historic term.

Also in a lifetime of watching my local TV news I don't remember a breaking News story of a High Crime being committed.

... We take you now to Live Chopper 3. Which is over a warehouse on Industrial Road. Police have the building surrounded. They believe a suspect in the recent High Crime wave is held up in this abandoned warehouse...

Answer 1

I believe that is a deliberately vague term that would allow a President to be removed for jaywalking - should Congress, the Courts, and the public agree.
As long as a President has some support in one of those areas, it would have to be a crime that a reasonable person would consider important.

Answer 2

President Ford famously said that an impeachable offense is whatever the majority in the House of Representatives considers it to be at any given time. The term “high crimes” is vague and probably purposely so.

Answer 3

That would be smoking a joint and then getting into your car to go to the store. You get pulled over and hit with a traffic violation for going fifteen in a forty five mile an hour zone. Something like manipulating people's thinking by saying things like...you don't want the smoking gun of proof to be a mushroom cloud, do you, as a reason for an invasion of another country.

Answer 4

At the time of our founding, high crimes were defined by English law in a book called "State Trials". Copies are available at the University of Texas Law Library.
I suggest reading the trial of King Charles i.

Answer 5

Actually I think "high crime" means a crime committed by a high ranking elected official.......like the president.
Like this president should have been tried for dereliction of duty by ignoring national security and terrorism until after we were attacked!