Contra Alan Dershowitz on Late Impeachments
On the validity of an impeachment trial for a former president.
On the validity of an impeachment trial for a former president.
The lawsuit from three Orange County preservation groups argues that supposedly historic buildings should be afforded the same environmental protections as "air, water, and forests."
The CRA may offer Democrats a quick and easy way to repeal Trump Administration regulations, if they are willing to use it.
The signers include a wide range of constitutional scholars across the political spectrum, including Federalist Society co-founder Steve Calabresi.
That punishment for reinforcing the delusions that drove the Capitol riot is highly unlikely, and it would set a troubling precedent.
Partisans who abandon constitutional principles because they prove inconvenient are in for a rude surprise when the other team wins.
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Justice Barrett should revisit her views on this wrongly maligned case.
Biden's willingness to extend a nationwide eviction moratorium, while declining to mandate masks nationwide, demonstrates a worrying inconsistency in his views on presidential powers.
Biden correctly recognizes he doesn't have the authority to impose a general national mask mandate. The same reasoning shows the nationwide eviction ban is also illegal.
The cult of the imperial U.S. presidency has come to feel like a national religion.
Their letter to Congress warns about inevitable abuses against religious and racial minorities.
The Senate minority leader sees a grave political risk in failing to repudiate the former president.
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The First Amendment should not be a viable defense in an impeachment trial
The president's final batch of clemency actions includes commutations for dozens of nonviolent drug offenders.
The president acknowledges that there are limits to executive power, even during a public health emergency.
A further rejoinder to Josh Blackman and Seth Tillman.
The Constitution's words, history, and structure suggest the best answer is no. He can't plead, "I beg my pardon."
The House and Senate are making unforced errors in laying the groundwork for an impeachment trial
Eviction bans were enacted as an emergency public health measure. They’re quickly becoming a permanent policy.
Judge Michael Luttig thinks a former president cannot be tried in the Senate. The argument is flawed.
Amazon denies any impropriety in its decision to suspend the Twitter alternative, dismissing the suit as "meritless."
Trump has been impeached, but there is still time to put a stronger case before the Senate.
Conflicting signals from the Belknap impeachment
A rejoinder to Josh Blackman and Seth Tillman.
Neither major party is a friend to limited government.
Something like Wednesday evening's soothing remarks could have made a real difference on the day of the Capitol riot.
Several House Republicans joined their colleagues across the aisle in the ultimate condemnation of Trump's role on Jan. 6.
Impeachment can only succeed if it has substantial bipartisan support. Here are some ways to help make that happen.
Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo seems unlikely to double down on the past four years of economic foolishness at the Commerce Department.
Here is how Mitch McConnell, Mike Pence, Liz Cheney, Ted Cruz, and Josh Hawley responded to the president's election delusions.
History and precedent both support impeachment trials for former federal officials.
The Senate should bifurcate its impeachment inquiry: Remove from office now, Disqualify from Office-holding later
As Mitch McConnell and Liz Cheney break for impeachment, the freshman GOP congressman who succeeded Justin Amash says that Republicans who are "going to vote our conscience tomorrow" expect to be assaulted.
Among many other things, it cites recent writings by VC bloggers Jonathan Adler, Keith Whittington and myself.
GOP leaders who raise this objection to impeachment can help solve the problem through the simple expedient of supporting impeachment themselves.
The impeachment article against the president cites a little-discussed section of the 14th Amendment.
The precedents are clear, and Senate could bar Trump from holding future office.
Justice Clint Bolick dissents in Arizona v. Mixton.
Bureaucracy keeps on regulating through the chaos
Impeachment, 25th Amendment, or censure? Deplatforming, Section 230, or inclusion? The Reason Roundtable debates.
"The question of whether incitement to riot is an impeachable offense is pretty easy," says the Cato Institute's Gene Healy. "Clearly, yes."
The Constitution does not bar such proceedings. And the impeachment process could still serve the valuable purposes of deterring wrongdoing by future presidents and barring Trump from ever holding federal office again.
Prominent legal scholars who rarely agree on anything else make the case for a swift impeachment process.