by Karl W. Smith Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has a knack for making everyone mad. With his vote against former President Donald Trump’s impeachment, he angered both Democrats and many Never-Trump Republicans. His vote could have been seen as a cynical ploy to cozy up to ...
That the most bipartisan presidential impeachment ever ended in Trump’s acquittal on charges of inciting an insurrection was expected, but that makes it no less infuriating. Because there was virtually a consensus even among Republican politicians that former President Donald Trump ...
Vote your conscience — if you have one By all appearances, it looks as if the U.S. Senate will never arrive at the 67 votes needed to convict former President Trump for “incitement of insurrection.” Never mind what lame arguments Trump’s defense team uses to win his acquittal. Far ...
by David Zurawik Just a few days into the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump, Rep. Jamie Raskin and the other House impeachment managers did what journalism has so far mainly failed to do: Produce a factual, coherent and compelling account of the storming of the U.S. ...
by Scott Martelle With former President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial getting underway in the Senate on Tuesday, the nation’s attention is, once again, drawn to a man who craves it like a drug. But the focus really ought to be on the members of the Senate, on us as a ...
by Noah Feldman The impeachment defense brief of former president Donald Trump mostly consists of three elements, each of which I’ve addressed (and rejected) in previous columns: The purported unconstitutionality of trying the president once he is out of office; his supposed First ...