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AG Barr looks at Trump

William Barr: A Failed Attorney General Unfit to Serve

William Barr has repeatedly abused his office as attorney general to provide personal and political protection for President Donald Trump at the expense of the integrity and credibility…
Mitch McConnell on Senate Floor

The Most Serious Obstruction of All: The Vote to Block Witnesses and the Public’s Right to Know

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…
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) arrives at the U.S. Capitol on January 22, 2020 in Washington, DC.

Republican Senators’ Short-Sighted Justifications for Acquitting Trump

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

John Bolton’s Silence — Here’s how he could lawfully break it

"If he wanted to, Bolton could this afternoon ..."
The White House as seem from outside the West Wing. A guard stands at the entrance.

Timeline: Trump, Giuliani, Biden, and Ukrainegate

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…
Bolton and Trump

Explainer: Prepublication Review and How it Applies to Bolton

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…
Pat Cipollone, White House counsel, waits for an elevator as he arrives at the U.S. Capitol on January 22, 2020 in Washington, DC.

The Ukrainian “Drug Deal” and All the President’s Lawyers

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.
A stack of newspapers.

Lessons for Life: The Obituaries of Republicans Who Opposed Nixon’s Impeachment

"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."
Trump and Bolton

Why the White House May Not Dare Fight on Executive Privilege

"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…
Trump

Political Self-Interest and the Impeachable Offense: A Reply to Professor Bobbitt

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."
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) leaves the Senate floor at the conclusion of the third day of the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump on January 23, 2020 in Washington, DC.

There Is No Reason to Exclude Evidence in an Impeachment Trial on Grounds of Hearsay

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.
Story Dershowitz

Justice Joseph Story on “High Crimes and Misdemeanors”—The Antithesis to Dershowitz

Ambassador David Scheffer compares what one of the greatest American jurists said about the Impeachment Clause to what Professor Dershowitz claims.
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