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Must the House Vote to Authorize an Impeachment Inquiry?
Despite what White House Counsel Pat Cipollone and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy have argued, it is constitutionally acceptable for the House to initiate an impeachment without a formal vote. -
White House Letter to Congress on Impeachment Inquiry
White House counsel Pat Cipollone has sent a letter to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and various committee chairmen indicating that the president "cannot participate" in the ongoing impeachment inqui... -
House Committees Subpoena Department of Defense and Office of Management and Budget for Ukraine Documents
The chairmen of three House Committees— Oversight and Reform, Intelligence and Foreign Affairs—sent similar letters to subpoena documents from Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and Acting Director of the O... -
House Committees Subpoena White House for Ukraine Documents
Chairman Elijah E. Cummings of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, Chairman Adam Schiff of the House Intelligence Committee and Chairman Eliot Engel of the House Foreign Affairs Committee sent a... -
The Volker Texts: What Quid Pro Quo Looks Like
The more information becomes public about L’Affaire Ukrainienne, the wider and deeper the controversy becomes. Late on Oct. 3, Congress released perhaps the most damning information yet: excerpts from a... -
House Chairmen Request Documents from Vice President Pence
The chairmen of three House committees—Oversight and Reform, Foreign Affairs and Intelligence—requested the production of several documents from Vice President Mike Pence related to his involvement in th... -
Recent Ukrainian Perspectives on the Trump-Ukraine Scandal
What is the Ukrainian media emphasizing about the scandal—and what statements are politicians, agencies and journalists making in the country on the other end of the phone line? -
Congress Releases Ukraine-Related Text Messages
Thursday evening, the chairmen of the three House Committees—Oversight and Reform, Foreign Affairs and Intelligence—released text messages provided by Kurt Volker, the former U.S. special envoy for Ukrai... -
Three Lessons From the First Time a Head of State Was Impeached
When the Framers wrote impeachment into the Constitution, they were drawing on a long history of English common law. But situated within that history, the first impeachment of a head of state had taken p... -
Justice Department Filing in New York Trump Tax Returns Case
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) filed a statement of interest in the case involving President Trump’s challenge to Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr.’s su... -
The Constitution Says ‘Bribery’ Is Impeachable. What Does That Mean?
Now that Congress has launched an impeachment investigation into President Trump’s effort to use the Ukrainian government to target a political rival, much ink has been spilled on the question of whether... -
Armed Militias Are Taking Trump’s Civil War Tweets Seriously
Over the weekend, the president sent a tweet that seemed to warn of civil war if he were to be impeached and removed from office: ....If the Democrats are successful in removing the President from off...
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