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Today in 1804, the Jeffersonian Republican-controlled United States Senate appointed a committee to plan the impeachment trial of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase. A signer of the Declaration of Independence, Chase had been impeached by the House of Representatives...
If nothing else, the impeachment proceedings have encouraged us to think about some interesting hypotheticals. Here are a few: 1. Can former Presidents be impeached? Leading originalist-oriented blogger Keith Whittington says yes. But I am not so sure. The...
While everybody obsessed over impeachment, there was other news out there. Well, it wasn’t exactly news, because pretty much nobody reported on it. But some significant things happened – things that could actually impact your life. Things that the political class...
I’ll put the conclusion first: I think supporters of the present impeachment have largely stated the law correctly, but I’m skeptical of their application of the law to the facts. As indicated in a prior post, I mostly agree with the Majority Counsel’s scholarly and...
The House Judiciary Committee has issued a report claiming, essentially, that Congress is not bound by any standards of what is impeachable. Citing Justice Joseph Story, who wrote a 19th century commentary on the Constitution, the report claims that it is impossible...