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    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...

    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...

    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...

    Biden campaign issues warning to the media: Fall in line and debunk corruption claims
    Jan22

    Biden campaign issues warning to the media: Fall in line and debunk corruption claims

    On Monday, Joe Biden’s presidential campaign issued a warning to reporters and editors in a circulated memorandum demanding that they debunk claims of corruption against him.The memo, titled, “The Imperative for Honest Coverage of Trump’s Ukraine Conspiracy Theory,” dealt specifically with the charge that then-Vice...

    Zelensky Walks the Knife’s Edge
    Jan22

    Zelensky Walks the Knife’s Edge

    After nearly six years of conflict with Russia, there is in Ukraine today a somewhat fluid spectrum of public opinion that breaks down broadly into two camps. These are not the camps into which Kremlin propaganda usually—and erroneously—divides Ukrainians: a party of peace and a party of war. Instead, they are divided between those who believe in...

    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...