By Withholding Funds to Ukraine, Trump Broke the Law
The Government Accountability Office says Trump's spending delay was illegal.
The Government Accountability Office says Trump's spending delay was illegal.
President Donald Trump's trial will likely begin next week.
The big question is whether Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will allow any witnesses at all.
His case now heads to the Senate, where he will almost certainly be acquitted.
The libertarian congressman announced on the House floor that he will vote in favor of impeachment.
Many of the president's beefs are frivolous, but he is right that impeachment has been rushed.
If I were Trump, I would not want to find out.
The motion passed along party lines.
The gaps in the record invite the public to dismiss impeachment as a purely partisan exercise.
While the president’s motives in seeking Ukrainian investigations are a matter of dispute, his actions are clear from the public record.
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.
Plus: another half-truth from Elizabeth Warren, Rick Perry calls Trump "the chosen one," and more...
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.
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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.
Plus: Involuntary commitment and "Indian-made" laws scrutinized, unconstitutional copyright bill passes, stranger danger panic, and more...
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.
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