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New Ukraine Transcripts Released for Gordon Sondland and Kurt Volker
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House Committees Release Transcripts of Marie Yovanovitch and Michael McKinley Testimony
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The Report, Episode Fourteen: The Fixer Flips
Today, we released the fourteenth episode of Lawfare’s narrative audio documentary, The Report, which recounts the story Robert Mueller lays out in his 448-page report. -
The CIA’s Legal Obligation to Report the Ukraine Information to the Attorney General
The CIA was obligated to report to the Justice Department information regarding the Ukraine call, but the process by which the initial report was made in this case appears in several aspects to be at va... -
Arctic Provisions in the 2020 NDAA
The draft National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2020, currently in conference, includes three Arctic-specific provisions that show a continuing increase in congressional attention to ... -
Impeachment as an Alternative to Judicial Review
In recent weeks, House Democrats have intensified their investigation into President Trump’s contacts with Ukraine, subpoenaing documents from the executive branch and calling administration officials to... -
What’s in the House Resolution on Impeachment?
On Oct. 29, Chairman of the House Rules Committee James McGovern introduced House resolution H.Res.660, along with a fact sheet, outlining procedures going forward for the impeachment inquiry into the pr... -
Opening Statements from State Dept. Ukraine Experts
Two State Department foreign service officers, Catherine M. Croft and Christopher J. Anderson, will appear before the House impeachment inquiry on Wednesday. They will report that President Trump held a ... -
The Strategic Underpinning—and the Limits—of the Republican ‘Due Process’ Defense of Donald Trump
Impeachment is both a political and a legal process. It is not unconstrained by precedent, nor is it controlled by it. In the course of impeachment, legislators may be guided by a sense of constitutional... -
House Resolution on Impeachment Procedures
The House has released a resolution laying out rules and procedures moving forward with the impeachment inquiry. The resolution directs the Intelligence Committee, in addition to the Committees on Foreig... -
What Do Scholars Say About the Impeachment Power?
Then-Rep. Gerald Ford once defined an impeachable offense as “whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.” But legal scholars have concluded that ... -
The Mueller Report and ‘National Security Investigations and Prosecutions’
When Doug Wilson and I set out to write the first edition of “National Security Investigations and Prosecutions” (NSIP), the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, were still recent, George W. Bush was in his first ...
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