Impeachment?

[Alan]

Even with Jane’s murder example, what would prevent a sufficiently motivated Congress from impeaching Obama for murder using some drone strike or assassination he authorized as a pretext?

Or maybe for providing weapons to Mexican cartels which would later be used to kill Americans and using executive privilege to deny Congress access to witnesses and documents for their investigation. I don't recall many Democrats getting their panties in a bunch about that one.

I think there are eminently practical reasons for holding a US president to a different standard than a local highway commissioner.

So do I! Although I'm thinking Jane and JP1 will too when a President Sanders or Buttigieg are impeached for something similar.