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    The Democrats’ Airtight, Impotent Case for Impeaching Trump
    Jan23

    The Democrats’ Airtight, Impotent Case for Impeaching Trump

    Just over a year ago, hours after the new House Democratic majority was sworn in, incoming freshman Rashida Tlaib gave an impassioned speech to a crowd of revelers at an event sponsored by the progressive group MoveON. It was a speech about identity as a motivational force for political action, one that referred not only to her own Palestinian...

    AP Fact Check: Trump’s False Account of Ukraine Episode
    Jan23

    AP Fact Check: Trump’s False Account of Ukraine Episode

    President Donald Trump gave a false account Wednesday of some of the circumstances that got him impeached.As the Senate impeachment trial wrestled with the fate of his presidency, Trump offered distorted statements about how the episode developed. He claimed Ukraine got U.S. military aid early, when the package of assistance at the heart of the...

    The Senate Can (but Probably Won’t) Fill the Gaps in the Case for a Ukraine Quid Pro Quo
    Jan23

    The Senate Can (but Probably Won’t) Fill the Gaps in the Case for a Ukraine Quid Pro Quo

    Donald Trump’s lawyers argue that the Senate should insist on proof beyond a reasonable doubt in deciding whether to convict him of the charges described in the articles of impeachment. If so, his acquittal is not only inevitable for strictly political reasons but justified by an honest assessment of the existing evidence. It is not at all...

    Schiff Opens Impeachment Case Alleging Broad Pattern Of Trump Soliciting Foreign Help
    Jan23

    Schiff Opens Impeachment Case Alleging Broad Pattern Of Trump Soliciting Foreign Help

    President Trump’s decision to strong-arm Ukraine into becoming a domestic political ally for the 2020 election is merely the latest example of a pattern of soliciting foreign help, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) argued in his opening statement in the Senate impeachment trial on Wednesday. Schiff’s argument ties Trump’s alleged...

    DC Sues Trump Inaugural Committee, Alleging Abuse of Funds
    Jan22

    DC Sues Trump Inaugural Committee, Alleging Abuse of Funds

    The District of Columbia is suing President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee and two companies that control the Trump International Hotel in the nation’s capital, accusing them of throwing parties for the Trump family with nonprofit funds, and overpaying for event space at the hotel.The district’s attorney general, Karl...

    Biden Downplays Tensions with Sanders Over Social Security
    Jan22

    Biden Downplays Tensions with Sanders Over Social Security

    Joe Biden sought on Wednesday to ease tensions with Democratic presidential rival Bernie Sanders after the two candidates exchanged several volleys over Social Security and other matters. And the former vice president pledged in a wide-ranging interview with MSNBC that if he reaches the White House, he would not agree to any budget deal that...

    Republican Lawmakers Questioned Trump’s Withholding of Ukraine Aid, Documents Show
    Jan22

    Republican Lawmakers Questioned Trump’s Withholding of Ukraine Aid, Documents Show

    Newly released emails and other documents show that some of those now sitting as jurors in Trump’s impeachment trial were also unhappy about his move to freeze aid last year. …read more Source:: Foreign...

    The Calvinball Impeachment Trial Begins
    Jan22

    The Calvinball Impeachment Trial Begins

    The first day of President Donald Trump’s Senate impeachment trial on Tuesday saw Republicans and Democrats quarreling over the rules for the proceedings, with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R–Ky.) rejecting a series of amendments proposed by Democrats that would have allowed them to call additional witnesses and collect documents...

    Universal Lessons from Ukraine’s Identity Crisis
    Jan22

    Universal Lessons from Ukraine’s Identity Crisis

    In the drama of impeachment Ukraine is both a central and passive protagonist. It is the character onto which others project their hopes and fantasies: there’s Trump’s nutty theory that it was actually Ukraine that hacked the DNC and then pinned it on Russia, and his belief that Ukraine is where a story could be found, or at least...

    Alan Dershowitz Hasn’t Changed One Bit
    Jan22

    Alan Dershowitz Hasn’t Changed One Bit

    Alan Dershowitz’s greatest impact on American law likely came at the beginning of his career. In 1963, Justice Arthur Goldberg tasked him to help build an argument against what had, until then, gone unquestioned: the constitutionality of capital punishment. Dershowitz—then a young Supreme Court clerk, now a Harvard University law professor...