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SOURCE: Washington Monthly
1/15/2021
Impeach Trump, But Not for What He Said on January 6th
by Jonathan Zimmerman
There's ample justification for Trump's second impeachment in his pattern of disregard for democracy and efforts to subvert the vote count. But reviving the charge of incitment of insurrection opens the door to ideological prosecution and the suppression of free speech.
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SOURCE: Washington Monthly
1/18/2021
What the Founders Would Have Done with Trump
by Frank O. Bowman III
"The impeachment mechanism written into the American Constitution owes its structure to a set of very specific lessons the Framers drew from British and classical history," writes a constitutional law scholar. Those lessons point to the validity of trying Trump in the Senate even after the end of his presidency.
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SOURCE: New York Times
1/14/2021
Why Trump Can Be Convicted Even as an Ex-President
by Steven I. Vladeck
The historical record of impeachment trials suggests that they treat removal from office and disqualification from future office as separate questions, meaning that the Senate may still vote to disqualify Trump from office even after his term has ended.
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SOURCE: Medium
1/11/2021
Historians and Constitutional Scholars’ Statement on the Second Impeachment of President Donald Trump
by Historians and Legal Scholars for Impeachment
A group of historians and legal scholars has created an open letter calling for the impeachment of Donald Trump over his role in the Capitol riot of January 6.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
1/9/2021
Trump’s Removal Is Taking Too Long
by Tom Nichols
Donald Trump has shown no contrition over inciting an insurrection against Congress to preserve his own power and can be presumed willing to do anything, including order the use of nuclear weapons. A single day he retains the powers of the presidency is a day too many, writes Tom Nichols.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
1/12/2021
There’s an Alternative to Impeachment Or 25th Amendment for Trump, Historians Say
by Michael S. Rosenwald
Eric Foner discusses Section III of the 14th Amendment, which barred those guilty of engaging in or aiding insurrection against the United States from holding elected or civil office in the United States. The section has no provision for removal from office but would prevent Trump's reelection if he were found guilty of insurrection.
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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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