impeachment

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/13/19
  

  How the Mueller report could end the Trump presidency without impeachment

  by Jasmin Bath

  Democrats should run on a message from 1860: You need a president you can trust.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  5/13/19
  

  What Democrats Can Learn About Impeachment From the Civil War

  by Jamelle Bouie

  Lesson One: Don’t let Trump take the initiative.

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• SOURCE: Just Security
  5/14/19
  

  The Precedent for Impeachment: Nixon, Not Clinton

  by Kevin Kruse and Julian Zelizer

  "Blumenthal, who had a front row seat to the Clinton drama, understands that there are major differences between these two instances."

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• SOURCE: Just Security
  5/14/19
  

  An Open Memo: Comparison of Clinton Impeachment, Nixon Impeachment and Trump Pre-Impeachment

  by Sidney Blumenthal

  The facts and history indicate that the Clinton case bears little if any relevance to the Trump one, while the Nixon case shows great similarity to Trump’s.

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• 5/12/19
  

  George Orwell and Why the Time to Stop Trump is Now

  by David Goldfischer

  From 1776 to the fall of the Berlin Wall, believers in human freedom and democratic self-governance have known when to shrug off setbacks and summon their will. That time is now.

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• SOURCE: New Yorker
  5/8/19
  

  Brenda Wineapple, Author of a New Book About Andrew Johnson, on the Right Reasons to Impeach a President

  "To reduce the impeachment of Andrew Johnson to a mistaken incident in American history, a bad taste in the collective mouth, disagreeable and embarrassing, is to forget the extent to which slavery and thus the very fate of the nation lay behind Johnson’s impeachment.”

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/19/19
  

  The public, not Robert Mueller, will determine Donald Trump’s fate

  by Kathryn Cramer Brownell

  Will Trump be Richard Nixon or Bill Clinton?

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/21/19
  

  ‘The President himself may be guilty’: Why pardons were hotly debated by the Founding Fathers

  The Mueller report raised the issue the Constitution’s framers feared in 1787: Abuse of presidential power.

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• SOURCE: NBC News
  3/21/19
  

  Trump Can Be Indicted – Here's the Constitutional Proof

  by Mark Medish

  Impeachment by Congress is one way to remove a president from office. Indictment and prosecution for a federal felony provide a separate avenue.

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• 2/16/19
  

  What To Know About the History of Impeachment

  by Peter Charles Hoffer

  A primer on the constitutional basis of impeachment, when it's been used before, and what that means for our current political moment. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/25/19
  

  Historians on Impeachment

  Can impeachment appear legitimate in a hyper-partisan universe?

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  Accessed 1/21/19
  

  Impeach Donald Trump

  by Yoni Appelbaum

  Starting the process will rein in a president who is undermining American ideals--and bring the debate about his fitness for office into Congress, where it belongs. 

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• 1/20/19
  

  The Watergate at 50: What the Building Tells Us About the Nixon Administration's Initial Optimism and Eventual Demise

  by Joseph Rodota

  And what that means for our present political moment. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  1/8/19
  

  Kevin Kruse and Julian Zelizer: Trump's Demise Will Be "Worse Than Watergate"

  by Kevin Kruse and Julian Zelizer

  If the multiple charges against Trump prove out, he’ll easily displace Nixon at the top of the Crooked Modern Presidents list.

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• SOURCE: CBS – Face the Nation
  12/30/2018
  

  Jill Lepore says the Kavanaugh hearings were a dress rehearsal for impeachment

  The Harvard historian says we're trapped in polarized politics that began in the 1970s. 

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• SOURCE: American Greatness
  12-23-2018
  

  Nixon biographer Conrad Black blasts historians for Trumpophobia

  by Conrad Black

  Black, who served time in prison for fraud in connection with his business activities, lambasted Doris Kearns Goodwin and Jon Meacham. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  12-12-2018
  

  Why the Nixon impeachment worked

  by Julian Zelizer

  Democrats shouldn't take the Clinton impeachment as a warning not to impeach Trump.

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• 10-24-18
  

  Review of “Impeachment: An American History” by Jeffrey Engel, Jon Meacham, Timothy Naftali, and Peter Baker

  by John Reeves

  A well-timed book.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  10-13-18
  

  Is Trump on a Collision Course With Impeachment?

  Democrats are largely ducking the topic on the campaign trail, but few people in Washington doubt that it will be on the table if they win the House.

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• 9-29-18
  

  Can a Supreme Court Justice Be Impeached?

  by Kevin Gannon

  Here's the answer historian Kevin Gannon provided on Twitter.