A majority of Americans have opposed impeaching President Trump for the last two years or so, but four new surveys suggest public opinion might be starting to shift. The surveys, conducted partly or entirely since Nancy Pelosi’s announcement on Tuesday, all show an increase in support for impeachment. They even […] Read more »
The Risks of Impeachment for House Democrats
There’s an awful lot we don’t know yet: how public opinion will respond to the declassified whistleblower report, how many months an impeachment inquiry could take, what other wrongdoing it could reveal, and whether Dems will ultimately have 218 votes to pass articles of impeachment (at 235 seats, they can […] Read more »
Impeachment Is Important — But Don’t Expect It to Matter Much in 2020
… Congressional elections expert Gary Jacobson of UC San Diego concluded at the time that “the results of the 1998 elections are in no way extraordinary. . . . [they] are about what we would expect if no one had ever heard of Monica Lewinsky.” If Clinton’s impeachment didn’t really […] Read more »
‘Everything You’re Seeing Is Deception’: How Right-Wing Media Talks About Impeachment
… With the president facing an impeachment inquiry, and a whistle-blower report made public Thursday that raised new questions about whether he tried to cover up his efforts to enlist Ukraine’s help in discrediting a political rival, allies of the White House in the pro-Trump media wasted no time constructing […] Read more »
Will Impeachment Reshape the 2020 Race?
… We are too early into the impeachment process to have any real idea of where it’s landing with voters. I wouldn’t put a lot of faith in any polling on impeachment that comes out this week. I understand the appetite to have data to prove/disprove one’s theory that this […] Read more »
Founders: Removal from office is not the only purpose of impeachment
Benjamin Franklin was a leading voice in the debates framing the Constitution. Howard Chandler Christy/Architect of the Capitol Clark D. Cunningham, Georgia State University As Congress moves toward a possible formal impeachment of President Donald Trump, they should consider words spoken at the Constitutional Convention, when the Founders explained that […] Read more »