
E. Donald Elliott
Adam Schiff, the House manager leading the impeachment case against President Trump, did an excellent job of presenting a fundamentally…
I learned one of my most valuable lessons as a lawyer early on: the side with the best lawyers doesn’t…
Both of the articles of impeachment passed by the Democrats in the House are unprecedented in that they charge “thought…
Historiography, the study of history and how to write it, hasn’t changed much in the 25 centuries since Herodotus. Herodotus…
Whatever its legal merit or lack thereof, the upcoming impeachment trial in the Senate is a political show trial that…
Our country could survive an impeachment trial of Donald Trump. We’d be wounded and I hope that calamity can be…
Just how stupid are we human beings as a species? That’s been an ongoing debate in the environmental law field…
As Benjamin Franklin was leaving the Constitutional Convention, he was asked, “What have you given us?” He answered: “A Republic,…
In his fine book Impeachment: A Citizen’s Guide (2017), Harvard Law School Professor Cass R. Sunstein, a prominent Democrat who served…
The most frequently quoted one-liner about impeachment is Gerald Ford’s: “An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House…