Tag: impeachment

The Senate trial could not have turned out better for anti-Trump forces—and more damaging for defenders of the Misfit-in-chief.

No cushy benefits. No national security briefings. No perks for the worst president in history.

The presidential offenses that are routinely considered unimpeachable -- and therefore ultimately acceptable -- tell us a lot about Congress. And about U.S. mass media. And maybe about ourselves.

This unprecedented state of affairs calls for unprecedented action, namely the conviction and formal removal of the 45th president who refuses to concede that he is no longer president.

If Congress chooses to impeach President Trump, it is because there is a need to mark out, through a definitive statement, what no president ought to do.

"It must be made clear that no president, now or in the future, can lead an insurrection against the U.S. government."

Where are widespread calls to arms that defying a legitimate election qualifies as the crisis of crises?

The word “outrageous” comes to mind.

It is, of course, the day the Republican majority in the U.S Senate decided to quit the Constitution rather than not to acquit a tyrannical president.

Watching impeachment through the lens of the New York Times.