Constitution

By Dennis Altman | – The next 13 months will see American politics completely dominated by the fate of Donald Trump. As the House of Representatives moves towards impeaching him, leading to a hearing which then moves to the Senate, the Democrats will be engaged in an increasingly bitter contest for the nomination to run […]

Constitution

Dry Impeachment alone won’t Save our Democracy: The Public has to Get Fired Up

Yes! Magazine

Congress is officially moving toward impeaching the president. But even then, it’s up to the people to keep our republic.

Constitution

Impeach Trump for his Crimes against the People, not just Against the Bidens & Dems

Peter Certo

(Afterwords.org) – Democrats need to take Trump’s crimes against people and the planet as seriously as those against Joe Biden. “Has Trump finally gone too far?” There’s a headline you’ve seen a thousand times. At last, Speaker Nancy Pelosi says he has. A whistleblower says Trump withheld foreign aid to Ukraine to pressure the country’s […]

Constitution

Spies and the White House have a history of running wild without congressional oversight

The Conversation

By Charles Tiefer | – At the heart of the current crisis over President Donald Trump’s dealings with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is an intelligence whistleblower whose information has finally made it into public view. The whistleblower’s complaint about Trump’s interaction with Zelenskiy was initially withheld from the House Intelligence Committee, something which the committee […]

Constitution

Trump’s Ukraine Plotting Has Been Happening in Plain Sight. So Why Didn’t We See It?

ProPublica

It’s not just that there’s a lot to pay attention to.

Constitution

Founders: Removal from office is not the only purpose of impeachment

The Conversation

By Clark D. Cunningham | – As Congress moves toward a possible formal impeachment of President Donald Trump, they should consider words spoken at the Constitutional Convention, when the Founders explained that impeachment was intended to have many important purposes, not just removing a president from office. A critical debate took place on July 20, […]

Constitution

Witness Intimidation: Unbalanced Trump Seeks Whistleblower sources, hints Execution for Espionage

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump, being unbalanced, has never dealt well with criticism. In the face of credible charges of impeachable offenses in his July conversation with Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky, Trump is unraveling. Eli Stokols at the LA Times reports that an attendee at a Trump event in New York for his UN […]

Congress

Annals of Impeachment: From Nixon’s “Smoking Gun” Tape to Trump Zelensky Summary

Juan Cole

On August 5, 1974, Nixon was forced by the Supreme Court to release the smoking gun tape in which he and his chief of staff H. R. Haldemann had a conversation, in the course of which Nixon could be heard acknowledging his knowledge of the burglary of the Democratic National Committee office files in the […]

Civil Rights

Trump’s Supreme Court overturns Magna Carta (1215) and Montesquieu (1748) for Sultan Donald John

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The US Supreme Court on Friday, by a 5-4 Republican Party majority, temporarily ruled to allow Trump to divert monies dedicated by Congress to the Defense Department budget to wall-building in the Southwest. If the court makes the ruling permanent, it will be attacking the principle of the “power of […]