You can get impeached for whatever the House feels you should be impeached for and you an get whenever enough of the Senate thinks the House's reasons for impeaching you merit your removal. That's it.
The people can then decide those lawmakers were wrong and vote them out. The Constitution offers guidelines for what that standard should be, but that's it.
Clinton got a blowjob, and the GOP house decided lying about it was worth impeaching him. The Senate thought lying about a blowjob wasn't worth removing him from office.
The current debate is about the House deciding whether Trump's actions warrant impeachment, then the Senate will decide of what they come up warrants removal from office. It seems very unlikely the GOP will find anything to merit his removal. The people can then decide whether or not their decision was correct. (Sort of, since the voting system in the US doesn't actually measure what "the people" want.)
The people can then decide those lawmakers were wrong and vote them out. The Constitution offers guidelines for what that standard should be, but that's it.
Clinton got a blowjob, and the GOP house decided lying about it was worth impeaching him. The Senate thought lying about a blowjob wasn't worth removing him from office.
The current debate is about the House deciding whether Trump's actions warrant impeachment, then the Senate will decide of what they come up warrants removal from office. It seems very unlikely the GOP will find anything to merit his removal. The people can then decide whether or not their decision was correct. (Sort of, since the voting system in the US doesn't actually measure what "the people" want.)