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re: You asserted two statements about "high".
gbaikie — (archived)

"1) "high" means against the state."

"High" doesn't mean against the state.
High crime or high misdemeanors means against the state.
"High" refers to or is concerning the State.
A crime which somehow involves the State could be a high crime. A crime that does not involve State can not be a high crime.

"2) "high" means committed by a person in high office. (Perhaps you are confused by the fact that the article is about prosecution of impeachment vs. a person in high office? This should not be taken as an excuse to redefine with new limits any legal terms used in it.)" "

It doesn't mean this either. Say, a supreme court justice, murders someone, then immediately turn himself in to the police. It's not unnecessarily a high crime.
Only if the judge uses his power in some way in connection to the murder, could it be called a high crime.
Now, if by being a judge it requires some kind of special court hearing, it might be called a high crime because of this association to his office.

And therefore with the topic of impeachment, in which a sitting president faces the Senate as a court, any charges brought would be high crimes or misdemeanors.

But for any crime or misdemeanors to be charged, one needs a statement of what is being charged.

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