Students streamed in and out of Suffolk Law’s fourth floor moot court room on a day of historic significance. They gathered to watch the first public hearing of the impeachment inquiry, stopping to share their views with a Wall Street Journal reporter who was part of a team of writers fanned out across the country.

Several Suffolk Law students “questioned whether the proceedings would measurably change the views of politicians, given the strong partisan divide, but they were personally motivated to watch the hearings unfold so they could judge for themselves,” wrote the Wall Street Journal’s Jon Kamp in the article, "Impeachment Hearings Emphasize Rift in Americans’ Views."

One of the students quoted in the article, Thomas Wood, a third-year student from New Hampshire, said he believed the evidence was enough to warrant impeachment. “Even setting aside whether it’s an abuse of power, it certainly looks like bribery,” Wood contended. “And the Constitution says that bribery is one of the enumerated per se violations and impeachable offenses.”

“Many students were too young to remember the impeachment proceedings for former President Bill Clinton, making the current event in Washington a unique moment in their lives,” Kamp wrote.