Those claiming impeachment ‘a political process and not a criminal process’ are wrong.
‘High Crimes & Misdemeanors’, and ‘conviction’ are very much criminal standards.
What is a ‘political process’ involves determining standards that an impeachment-bound congressional body must consider when question of invoking impeachment comes up.
Daring to press an impeachment against the political winds of public opinion can be a very hazardous undertaking which could jeopardize a political career of the unwise.
But the charges to justify that act is tied to criminality. PERIOD. FULL STOP.
A more complex argument supporting our position is posed at the AmericanThinker.