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A summary of each day’s trial proceedings with analysis and reflections.
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The overriding question in the pending trial is whether the Senate trial will be the occasion for a seminal judgment on Trump’s conception of the office of the presidency.
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The impeachment managers refuted Trump’s legal team’s claim that the former president engaged in free speech protected by the First Amendment when he claimed voter fraud and urged his supporters to “figh...
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Former President Trump’s legal team filed a brief with the Senate on Feb. 8 outlining their defense a day before Trump’s second impeachment trial is set to begin.
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Could Congress build a kind of distributed truth commission on the back of a system that already investigates misconduct in every important agency in the federal government: the network of inspectors gen...
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Rep. Jamie Raskin asked for Trump’s testimony on the events that led to the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol.
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Constitutional structure, founding-era understanding and later precedents all reinforce the imperative of employing impeachment to protect constitutional government—even if the president’s term has alrea...
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Amidst an ongoing debate over aging AUMFs, how does the president view the war powers? Biden's long tenure in the federal government suggests that while he might claim broad war authority, he will not us...
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Congress may soon consider whether or not to create a Bureau of Cyber Statistics. They should do so in a manner that gives the new bureau sufficient authority and capability to create a new, effective fe...
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The former president’s lawyers push back on the House managers’ claim that Trump incited the Jan. 6 insurrection at the capitol and argued that the Senate has no authority to try a former president.
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The brief calls Trump’s actions a “betrayal of historic proportions.”
