One of the most important goals of the Constitutional Convention was to establish a strong chief executive who would nonetheless…
Dissenting in the case of Caperton v. A. T. Massey Coal Co. (2009), the late Justice Antonin Scalia (1936–2016) wrote,…
Both of the articles of impeachment passed by the Democrats in the House are unprecedented in that they charge “thought…
Washington is convulsed by politics these days. The presidential election is less than a year away. The House is moving…
What a disappointment. After the two House Get Trump Committees came up with (if you’ll pardon the expression) trumped-up charges…
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…
The most frequently quoted one-liner about impeachment is Gerald Ford’s: “An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House…
My Yale Law School colleague Bruce Ackerman has proposed a theory of constitutional change that he calls “constitutional moments.” The…
