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E. Donald Elliott

E. Donald Elliott

E. Donald Elliott is a former professor at Yale Law School (1981-2025). He taught and still writes on a wide-variety of subjects, including constitutional law, civil procedure, administrative law, and energy and environmental law. He also practiced law in Washington, D.C. for over 30 years with several leading law firms. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute, the American College of Environmental Lawyers, and a senior fellow of the Administrative Conference of the United States. He served as general counsel of the EPA, 1989-1991.
by | Nov 12, 2019

In his fine book Impeachment: A Citizen’s Guide (2017), Harvard Law School Professor Cass R. Sunstein, a prominent Democrat who served…

by | Nov 6, 2019

The most frequently quoted one-liner about impeachment is Gerald Ford’s: “An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House…

by | Oct 28, 2019

My Yale Law School colleague Bruce Ackerman has proposed a theory of constitutional change that he calls “constitutional moments.” The…

by | Jun 28, 2019

The pundits in the left-wing press have uniformly agreed with President Trump’s decision to call off the retaliatory strike on…

by | May 14, 2019

I saw a bumper sticker the other day that made me laugh: “Make American Smart Again. Impeach Trump.” Let’s see…

by | Apr 9, 2019

One of the tragedies caused by the decline of education over the last century has been the demise of rhetoric,…

by | Mar 4, 2019

Many commentators in the liberal press are gloating that Donald Trump walked out of the Hanoi summit with North Korea…

by and | Feb 15, 2019

The other day all the major new outlets were covering a story about Elizabeth Warren saying on the campaign trail in…

by | Nov 21, 2016

If President-elect Donald Trump and the Republican majorities in both houses of Congress really want to “drain the swamp,” they…

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