In assessing impeachment, we should keep in mind Trump's usurpation of Congress' power over federal spending. This is a serious violation of the Constitution, and focusing on it overcomes some standard objections to impeachment.
Plus: corruption, corruption, runaway spending, and more corruption...
Steve Castor and Daniel Goldman seem to disagree on most everything.
Nunes attacked those who wanted to restrain NSA’s snooping. Clearly he never considered whether his call records would be exposed.
The three witnesses for the Democrats said Trump clearly committed impeachable offenses, while the lone witness for the Republicans said he wasn't so sure.
"CNN is the mother of fake news," reads the introduction to Nunes' new lawsuit.
House Democrats say the president "endangered national security."
The minority report dismisses all witness testimony and maintains that Trump did nothing wrong.
Given Ukraine's dependence on Trump's good will, Volodymyr Zelenskiy's comments about quid pro quos should be viewed as aspirational rather than factual.
"The Trump administration has engaged in some pretty bad behavior. It's a little hard to defend it on the merits," says Keith Whittington.
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The allegations against Trump are more serious than the offenses that led to Bill Clinton's impeachment because they relate directly to his duties as president.
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Russia is seeking to "delegitimize our entire presidency," Fiona Hill testified.
"It was no secret," he testified.
"I have learned many things that I did not know at the time of the events in question," the former special envoy to Ukraine testified.
Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman's testimony undermines the White House's defense that the president was focused on anti-corruption efforts.
Meanwhile, Andrew Napolitano thinks Trump "pretty clearly" violated criminal bribery laws
GOP House members, meanwhile, continue to push back against witnesses who say Trump broke the rules.
Plus: the effects of restrictive zoning on education access, DACA's uncertain future at the Supreme Court, and Mayor Pete's miraculous surge
Laura Cooper told congressional investigators that legally freezing aid requires Trump to notify Congress.
Trump pushed for investigations "into the Bidens" in exchange for a meeting with Ukraine, according to new transcripts from the impeachment inquiry
"POTUS wanted nothing less than President Zelenskiy to go to [a] microphone and say investigations, Biden, and Clinton," George Kent testified.
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After complaining about a lack of transparency, the senator declared that he will not read any impeachment transcripts.
Gordon Sondland said he now remembers conveying that military aid would be withheld until Ukrainian President Zelenskiy complied with Trump's demands.
"Let me just say that I think that American elections should be for Americans to decide," said Marie Yovanovitch.
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Plus: Oregon's vaping ban is halted, fake rap video money lands a man in jail, and a Syrian ceasefire appears to have already broken down.
The Ukrainian president's benign interpretation of Trump's conduct is relevant to the impeachment inquiry but not dispositive.
What if we actually took what Trump said seriously? As though he were, say, the President of the United States?
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The president has turned "business as usual" into a national scandal.
Both the president and his critics casually deploy the once-incendiary charge to discredit their opponents.
The president's threats might prevent future whistleblowers from coming forward to expose executive abuse.
If Trump used withholding of aid as leverage to pressure Ukraine into investigating Joe Biden, he both violated the Constitution and committed a federal crime. The evidence released so far strongly points in that direction, even if it is not completely definitive.
The president's critics have several legal theories, ranging from frivolous to debatable.
Lawmakers can’t outsource presidential oversight responsibilities to the executive branch.
The whistleblower report alleges an attempted cover-up.
While there may be sound political reasons to let voters decide Trump's fate, there are sound constitutional reasons to clarify the limits of his authority.
Plus: how Paul Manafort may be involved, the Crowdstrike conspiracy theory, and more...
The Trump administration has lost the benefit of the doubt because it has relentlessly lied about so many less significant matters, from weather maps to transcripts of press conferences.
Plus: Tulsi Gabbard opposes impeachment, vaping panic in Massachusetts, California's "war on freelancers," and more...
If Trump threatened to withhold aid funds in order to pressure Ukraine into investigating Joe Biden and his son, he undermined Congress' power of the purse. It's an important aspect of the Ukraine scandal that has so far been largely ignored.
The decision comes amidst allegations that President Trump pressured Ukraine into performing opposition research on Joe Biden.
Trump used the power of the presidency for personal political gain.
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