Impeachment

As we discussed with one of the authors of the book, How Democracies Die, the purges fit an ominous path followed by elected autocrats.

"Remember this: A bipartisan majority found that the factual allegations for Trump’s impeachment were proven."

What makes the Republican leadership’s actions particularly galling is that they wrapped their rush to acquittal in the cloak of “letting American voters decide.” That was…

Why Senator Ted Cruz's approach, rather than Lamar Alexander's, creates vulnerabilities for the White House and Republican Senators down the line.

"If he wanted to, Bolton could this afternoon ..."

A comprehensive chronology of events involving "Ukrainegate" and President Trump and Rudy Giuliani's efforts to persuade the Ukrainian government to investigate former Vice President…

An explainer of the key features of the prepublication review process and the significant discretion it gives the government to suppress protected speech—potentially including…

Lawyers in the Trump administration appear to be acting more like operatives helping to facilitate an illegal scheme, rather than lawyers with an obligation to end it.

"If the reference is not made in the obituary’s headline, it still appears as a central point in the narrative of their lives as that single decision affected the course of history."

"There’s a legal buzzsaw that would await the White House in asserting a claim of executive privilege as it would open the door to a judge finding that the crime fraud exception…

Former White House Counsel Bob Bauer: "The case for an abuse of power may be clinched by the finding of a serious violation of law. It does not depend on it."

Excluding evidence in a Senate impeachment trial because it might fall under the penumbra of “hearsay” in a federal court setting raises numerous complex issues.