impeachment

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• SOURCE: AP
  11/12/19
  

  Then and now: How Trump impeachment hearing is different

  There are consistencies in the process — televised hearings, partisan rancor and memorable speeches — but each impeachment process also stands alone as a reflection of the president, the Congress and the times.

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  11/9/19
  

  Presidential cooperation: History's perspective on scandal and controversy

  by Stephen W. Stathis

  The American experience is littered with scandals. When presidents have been unwilling to cooperate with an investigation, the resulting confrontation is often ugly and long-remembered, as the escalating Ukraine scandal undoubtedly will be.

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• SOURCE: NBC News
  11/9/19
  

  From Nixon to Trump, the historical arc of presidential misconduct is deeply troubling

  by James M. Banner Jr.

  Since the early 1970s, the behavior of American presidents has worsened in alarming ways.

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• 11/12/19
  

  Why Televised Hearings Mattered During Watergate But May Not Today

  by James Robenalt

  The whistleblower today has been backed up by others who had direct knowledge, making his or her account now superfluous. John Dean had no such back-up from others; he had to wait a year for his testimony to be fully corroborated by the tapes themselves.

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• 11/14/19
  

  The Impeachment Primer: 40+ Articles About Impeachment by Historians

  A detailed list of articles authored by historians that contextualize major themes in the ongiong impeachment inquiry. 

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• 11/10/19
  

  Who Will Be America's Brutus?

  by Michael A. Genovese

  Have we a Caesar in our midst, imperial and imperious? Who will figuratively kill the beast that is doing such violence to the American system? 

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• SOURCE: Chris Riback's Conversations
  10/31/19
  

  Chris Riback is Reading the Impeachment Inquiry Opening Statements Aloud on His Podcast

  by Chris Riback

  An easy way to listen to and understand history-making testimony as it happens. 

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• SOURCE: Madman of Chu
  11/1/19
  

  There Are Only Two Ways that this Ends

  by Andrew Meyer

  If the electorate deems the president fit to serve despite all of his abuses of power, then we will enter a new phase of our history as a nation.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  11/3/19
  

  Down the Rabbit Hole With Donald Trump

  by Tom Engelhardt

  Who not in Blunderland could ever have imagined that a bankrupted casino magnate and reality TV host might essentially -- like his lawyer recently -- butt-dial us all into a new form of (un)reality?

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  11/6/19
  

  Plutarch and the Parallel Lives of Donald Trump

  by Lance Morrow

  If Plutarch studied American presidents, to which would he compare and contrast the 45th?

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• 11/5/19
  

  The Ghosts of Founders Past

  by Jason Pack

  Halloween held a ghoulish surprise for American President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. As a result of their hubris, they were both forced to watch their longstanding dreams of unbridled executive authority die in the ditch of rule of law.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  10/31/19
  

  Impeachment Wasn’t Always This Fair

  by Buckner F. Melton, Jr.

  For more than half of the country’s history, potential impeachment defendants had wildly different rights from the ones they have today.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  10/25/19
  

  A History Of 'Quid Pro Quo'

  The whole idea of a "quid pro quo" is so fundamental to the human experience that we have all kinds of ways to say it. Here, a look at how our understanding of "quid pro quo" has changed over time.

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• 10/27/19
  

  Why Originalism Should Apply to Impeachment

  by Donald J. Fraser

  I have never been a supporter of originalism. Until recently, I was also skeptical that impeachment was the right way to handle Donald Trump’s presidency. But I have recently changed my mind.

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• SOURCE: Washington Pot
  10/24/19
  

  The Constitution isn’t the cure for President Trump. It is the cause.

  by Shira Lurie

  Democrats point to President Trump’s violations of the Constitution, but the document’s undemocratic foundations enable him.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  10/20/19
  

  Pelosi Has History and the Constitution at Her Back

  by Caroline Fredrickson

  When the president runs amok, the House has a congressional duty to step in and provide oversight.

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• 10/20/19
  

  Can Studying Human Evolution Help Us Understand Impeachment?

  by David P. Barash

  What The Goodness Paradox can teach us about the importance of enforcing societal norms. 

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• 10/20/19
  

  Trump and the Divine Rights of Kings

  by Ed Simon

  Nobody feels sorrier for themselves than a monarch who discovers that their divine right is an illusion; nobody is more liable to lash out and project the blame for their predicament.

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  10/13/19
  

  Americans have spent 230 years trying to rein in presidential misconduct

  by James M. Banner Jr.

  While freighted with danger, impeachment is the only instrument offered by the Constitution to bring an administration otherwise out of direct reach of the law to book.

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• SOURCE: BU Today
  10/15/19
  

  Historian Andrew David Teaching Impeachment during an Impeachment Inquiry

  Andrew David pivots his lecture to teach about American presidential history as it unfolds.