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…
One way of thinking about the job of an agency Inspector General (IG) is to see it as scraping barnacles…
In Rucho v. Common Cause, the Supreme Court held that political gerrymandering claims do not belong in federal court. That’s…
On July 10, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals concluded that the District of Columbia and Maryland could not bring…