On Tuesday, CNN and the Des Moines Register hosted the seventh debate of the 2020 Democratic Primary campaign.  Wolf Blitzer, Abby Phillipand Brianne Pfannenstiel moderated the discussion. We’ve selected...

Senators are debating whether witnesses will appear at the impeachment trial. But if the Senate does vote to hear from witnesses, could executive privilege be utilized to block their testimony?

Unless Republican senators want to accept the facts laid out by the House leadership and restrict themselves to the legal question of whether those facts demonstrate impeachable conduct, they’re going to...

Congressional Republicans argue that the Federal Rules of Evidence should apply to the impeachment trial. But following these rules would guarantee that the Senate could hear from the witnesses that Mitc...

Legislators largely allowed the executive branch to take refuge in broad prophylactic doctrines that eliminated any need to consider Congress’s interests.

Any discussion of the obstruction charge against President Trump should take into account the historical constitutional disputes between Congress and the executive branch.

The House should subpoena those witnesses whose testimony would speak to the president’s personal culpability in the withholding of appropriated military assistance to Ukraine.