OK let’s go through this once more, slowly. Congress has the power to impeach the president. The House votes on articles of impeachment, but the trial is conducted in the Senate. The constitutional standard is whether the president has committed “high crimes and misdemeanors”. The reference about political v. Criminal actions refers to the process being conducted by Congress not the courts, and to the fact that the term “high crimes and misdemeanors”, which is not precisely defined, does not require a conviction in court on a criminal charge. This is not a Democratic or Republican issue. You may recall the last impeachment consisted of Republicans impeaching a Democratic president. So, the answer to your question is yes, they do.
