The week started with a letter from White House Counsel Patrick Cipollone to Speaker Nancy Pelosi, informing the House leader that the White House was not going to participate in an impeachment inquiry that it considered unconstitutional. Resistance to the impeachment inquiry escalated when the White House refused to let […] Read more »
Impeachment and American Political Development
A president is facing impeachment, nearly exactly when Arthur Schlesinger anticipated. At the conclusion of The Imperial Presidency in 1973, he offered a warning: “We have noted that corruption appears to visit the White House in fifty-year cycles. This suggests that exposure and retribution inoculate the Presidency against its latent […] Read more »
The Triple Threat for Trump
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 »
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 »