The impeachment process has three prongs – the inquiry, impeachment, and the Senate’s vote to convict and remove the president from office. The NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist Poll has newly released data on President Trump and impeachment and gauges Americans’ attitudes about each facet of the process. We dig deep into that […] Read more »
Support for Impeachment Has Grown but Also Slowed
Public support for impeaching President Trump — and also for removing him from office — surged after Nancy Pelosi announced the House impeachment inquiry more than two weeks ago. For now, that support hasn’t reached the point where one might expect Republican members of Congress to feel substantial political pressure […] Read more »
How Impeachment Is Supposed To Work
With so much impeachment news coming so quickly, we thought it would be good to go back to basics with a little Impeachment 101. To do that, we brought in Cardozo School of Law professor and ABC News contributor Kate Shaw. In this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, Shaw […] Read more »
This Week in Impeachment: Trump Lets Democrats Off the Hook, Puts the Squeeze on GOP Instead
The impeachment of President Trump was already a likely event by the end of last week. It became even more likely this week. … A Washington community that is ordinarily fond of cautioning Democrats that they are risking “overreach” by engaging in any politically assertive behavior temporarily ceased its usual […] Read more »
The Fall Was Supposed to Be All About 2020 Democrats — It’s Now All About Impeachment
This month was supposed to be all about the 2020 Democrats. … Thanks to impeachment drama, however, this month is all about Trump and Congress. Instead of playing a starring political role this fall, the 2020 Democrats are now playing a supporting role. Well, that’s true for most of the […] Read more »
What Nixon’s impeachment saga teaches us about Trump’s
Will Republicans ever get on board with impeaching and removing President Donald Trump from office? That’s a question that we should be asking, given that Trump won’t be removed unless a lot of Republican senators back such a move. Republican lawmakers will likely only do it if a lot Republican […] Read more »