Since "Mein Kampf" was still on the library shelves, it was hard to imagine how anything else merited removal.
It is possible to contemplate a president who engages in criminal misconduct below the level meriting removal (say, securities law violations).
Defenders were left to argue that yes, he may have violated the law, but it was not such a profound violation to merit removal.
And imagine how ashamed of my body I would have been as a teenage girl, being told that it was offensive enough to merit removal from a public place.
"The only alternative would be for the President to admit publicly, with absolutely no ambiguity, that he did in fact lie under oath, to be followed by a formal finding by the Congress that such lying constituted an impeachable offense meriting removal from office.
But in interviews after they had read the report, several of them said that because impeachment is defined as a political process by the Constitution, the question of whether Mr. Clinton's actions merited removal from office depends not on legal analysis but on the public reaction to the details of 445-page report.
Despite the multitude of anthropogenic influences on the Hudson River ecosystem, the shortnose sturgeon population appears to have achieved recovery and may merit removal from the list of threatened and endangered species.
Monsignor Curry also managed to advance up the hierarchical ladder and would seem to merit instant removal from his current post as auxiliary bishop for Santa Barbara.
His conspiracy theories are serious, but one would have thought that his open appeals to bigotry and frequent anti-Semitic dog whistles should have merited his removal from social media and podcasting platforms long ago.
The Republicans themselves, on the other hand, wasted the country's time and energy with their spiteful efforts to reverse the election of Bill Clinton as president by trying to remove him from office for personal acts and minor legal indiscretions that in no way merited his removal.
