impeachment

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• SOURCE: Public Books
  8/5/2020
  

  Was Impeachment Designed to Fail? (Review Essay)

  The Constitution, by design, stacks the impeachment deck strongly in the president’s favor. And it’s those 233-year-old design choices that dictated the Trump impeachment trial’s eventual outcome. Presidential impeachments are never a fair fight, and they weren’t meant to be.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  7/22/2020
  

  House Democrats Considered 10 Impeachment Articles Before Narrowing Their Case Against Trump

  The question of what to include in the case against President Trump is at the heart of a new book by Norm Eisen, a lawyer working with House Democrats in the impeachment effort.

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• SOURCE: Cato Institute
  4/21/2020
  

  Should We Blame Impeachment for the Botched COVID-19 Response?

  by Gene Healy

  It's a bad argument. Here's why.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  2/18/20
  

  “The Right to Do Whatever I Want as President”

  by Rebecca Gordon

  Impunity Guaranteed for Torturers (and Presidents)

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• 2/16/20
  

  “Patriotic” Veterans Only, Please

  by Gregory A. Daddis

  While perhaps an indication of our current toxic political environment, the attacks on “unpatriotic” veterans like U.S. Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman actually have a long and checkered history in post-World War II America.

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• 2/11/20
  

  Was Nixon Really Better Than Trump?

  by James Robenalt

  Nixon’s tapes show an embattled president acting the same way, only behind closed doors.

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  2/6/20
  

  Trump impeachment acquittal is bad news for democracy, but history shows us how to cope

  by Frederick E. Hoxie

  We have been here before. Our predecessors dug in and took it one topic, one government failure and one election at a time. We should, too.

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• SOURCE: PBS Newshour
  2/6/20
  

  3 historians on American political divisiveness — and how to heal it

  Judy Woodruff sits down with the University of New Hampshire’s Ellen Fitzpatrick, presidential historian Michael Beschloss and Carolyn Lukensmeyer of the National Institute for Civil Discourse to discuss.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/6/20
  

  After impeachment acquittal, Bill Clinton was ‘profoundly sorry.’ Trump not so much.

  Total time speaking for the usually long-winded Clinton: One minute and 36 seconds. Thursday for Trump: One hour and two minutes.  

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• 2/9/20
  

  Trump's Acquittal and the History of the Intentionally Undemocratic Senate

  by Ed Simon

  What can and must be learned from the impeachment affair isn’t that resistance to Trump has to be fruitless, but rather that we can’t expect institutions and procedures to be that which saves us. 

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• SOURCE: Creators.com
  2/5/20
  

  A Union Broken With a Senate Surrender

  by Jamie Stiehm

  The real rub is that the president is changing us Americans, giving light to a dark crevice in our character. He embodies — and emboldens — baleful defiance. The great presidents, like cheerful, sunny Franklin D. Roosevelt, bring out the best in us.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  2/5/20
  

  What Will the History Books Say About This Impeachment?

  Featuring historians Michael Kimmage, Claire Potter, Mary Frances Berry, Alan Baron, David Blight, Allan J. Lichtman, Brooks Simpson, Jeremi Suri, and Kim Wehle. 

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• SOURCE: Time
  2/6/20
  

  Where Trump's Acquittal Fits Into the History of Impeachment, According to Historians

  Featuring historians Carol Anderson, Jeffrey A. Engel, Kevin M. Kruse, Barbara A. Perry, Manisha Sinha, and Brenda Wineapple. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/6/20
  

  How Romney’s vote to convict Trump paid homage to his rabble-rousing Republican father

  George Romney forged ahead with his support for civil rights and against extremism, which at times pitted him against members of his own party.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/1/20
  

  Impeachment Then and Now: What Three Presidential Sites Can Teach Us

  We visited the presidential museums, libraries and sites dedicated to Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton to talk to visitors about the impeachment facing President Trump.

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• SOURCE: CU Boulder Today
  2/3/20
  

  It’s been worse: Doris Kearns Goodwin reflects on America’s tumultuous past

  “As difficult as the situation is today, we have lived through far more troubled times before."

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• SOURCE: Creators.com
  1/29/20
  

  History Has Its Eyes on You, Senate, and if You Don't Know, Now You Know

  by Jamie Stiehm

  Aaron Burr famously foresaw it all, in the room where it happens one winter day in 2020: the Senate chamber.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/29/20
  

  The Senate has a chance to take back power Congress gave up long ago

  by Susan Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes

  Calling witnesses in Trump’s impeachment trial would revive the habit of investigating the executive branch.

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• SOURCE: New Yorker
  1/27/20
  

  The Last Time Democracy Almost Died

  by Jill Lepore

  Learning from the upheaval of the nineteen-thirties.

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• SOURCE: Madman of Chu
  1/28/20
  

  Abuse of Power is a Crime

  by Andrew Meyer

  As the supreme law of the land, the constitution guarantees us the right to live in a Republic. The basic embodiment of that entitlement is the assurance that our government contains no official with the arbitrary and unchecked powers of a king.