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Livestream: Second Trump Impeachment Trial Day 3
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Livestream: Second Trump Impeachment Trial Day 2
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Impeachment Trial Diary: Daily Thoughts on the Senate’s Proceedings
A summary of each day’s trial proceedings with analysis and reflections. -
Trump’s Answer to the Senate and the Constitutional Stakes in the Pending Trial
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. -
Livestream: Second Trump Impeachment Trial Day 1
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House Impeachment Managers File Five-Page Memo Rejecting Trump Legal Team’s Arguments Ahead of Impeachment Trial
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... -
Trump’s Lawyers Denounce Impeachment Trial as ‘Political Theater’ in Pretrial Brief
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. -
The President’s Authority to Rejoin the Open Skies Treaty
President Biden could rejoin the United States to the Open Skies Treaty in reliance on the Senate’s original resolution of advice and consent. -
Can an Investigative Commission for the Trump Era Actually Work? A Proposal
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... -
House Impeachment Managers Ask Trump to Testify in Senate Trial
Rep. Jamie Raskin asked for Trump’s testimony on the events that led to the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol. -
The Constitutionality of Trying a Former President Impeached While in Office
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... -
America’s New Strategy for Space Nuclear Power
The United States is poised to become the first state to launch a space nuclear propulsion system under Space Policy Directive-6. But while the directive’s goal of space exploration is admirable, it give...
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