Impeachment

Hosted by Charlie Sykes.

On the special counsel, presidential pardons, and impeachment, the most important decisions will be rendered not by judges or senators but by the American people

Gene Healy reviews Laurence Tribe’s new book on the constitutional tool of presidential impeachment.

The judge ruled that the circuit attorney could end up being called as a witness by the defense.

One hundred and fifty years ago this month, the Senate put the president on trial. Nobody emerged with his reputation enhanced.

Missouri’s Eric Greitens puts his fellow Republicans in a terrible spot.

Missouri's governor is facing invasion of privacy charges related to a sex scandal, but a wholly separate claim about computer tampering will be tricky to get out of.

The president is setting the theme for the November congressional elections: We—he prefers “I” but might deign to share credit with Republican incumbents—have upped the pace of economic growth from below 2 percent to above 3 percent, created millions of new jobs, and cut taxes to put more money in…

Like any dutiful Washington swamp creature, I’ve spent the last few days holed up with Fire and Fury. Which is not, if you’ve been in news-cycle hibernation, the new fragrance from Ivanka. Rather, it is a book by Michael Wolff about life inside Mar-a-Lago North, aka the Trump White House.

Federalist 68, by Alexander Hamilton, is not much read today. It consists of a defense of the original Electoral College in which the electors, chosen by the people, would assemble in each state and deliberate on their choice for president. This version of the Electoral College never really took…

The Peruvian parliament will vote today on whether Peru’s president, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, has a “permanent moral incapacity,” and is unfit to hold office. Before the vote, he will have 60 minutes to defend himself. If found “morally incapable,” Kuczynski could be removed from office as early as…

Ken Starr might be the most famous lawyer in America outside of the Supreme Court. He has served as a federal judge on the DC Circuit Court and later as solicitor general. He has practiced law and taught law, been the dean of Pepperdine’s Law School and the president of Baylor University. But his…

These are perilous times for understatement and modest expectations. In the age of Trump, even the smallest of things are transmogrified into epoch-defining events. These are the days of mountains out of molehills, “a new low” almost daily, and more proof (as if more were needed) that your…

These are perilous times for understatement and modest expectations. In the age of Trump, even the smallest of things are transmogrified into epoch-defining events. These are the days of mountains out of molehills, “a new low” almost daily, and more proof (as if more were needed) that your…

Is the deck being stacked against President Trump? It's beginning to look that way since a special counsel was appointed a few weeks ago to investigate possible ties between Trump—or any breathing body in his campaign last year—and the Russians.

Is the deck being stacked against President Trump? It's beginning to look that way since a special counsel was appointed a few weeks ago to investigate possible ties between Trump—or any breathing body in his campaign last year—and the Russians.

President Trump may not realize it, but he needs House Republicans more than they need him. If they keep the House in next year's midterm election, Republicans can block Democrats from impeaching him. But if Democrats take over, Republican won't be able to prevent them from taking up impeachment.

Today on the Daily Standard podcast, senior writer Jay Cost argues the left's obsession with the "I" word is both political malpractice and underestimates the strength of American democracy.

Since Donald Trump's debate performance on Monday, he and his surrogates have teased the idea that they might attack Hillary Clinton for Bill Clinton's past infidelities. Let's put aside the propriety of this attack, and analyze it strictly as a political maneuver. It is dubious whether this would…

Hillary Clinton's recently released emails includes a memo sent by David Brock titled, "Memo on Impeaching Clarence Thomas."

In an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal this morning, Representatives Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., and Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, call for the impeachment of IRS head Jim Koskinen. The congressmen accuse Koskinen of a host of serious transgressions including destruction of evidence, hiding the fact that evidence…

Charles Krauthammer said on Fox News tonight that amnesty via executive order is an "impeachable offense."

Vice President Joe Biden seemed to take a shot at the Clintons in an interview yesterday when he brought up "all that stuff that was going on" in the 1990s. Biden's reference served as a reminder that Democrats avoided the Democratic president when President Clinton was getting impeached.

In case you’ve not been paying attention, an issue for House Republicans as the midterm elections draw near is what to do about a president they believe has offended the Constitution by usurping legislative power and failing to carry out his duty to faithfully execute the law.

Forget Bill Clinton. And Richard Nixon. And, for that matter, George W. Bush. The president who has faced the greatest "level of obstruction" is, according to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the current president of the United States -- Barack Obama.

Bill Kristol, with Joaquin Castro, David Remnick, and Greta Van Susteren, yesterday on ABC News:

The boss, joined Cokie Roberts, Ana Navarro, and David Plouffe, joined George Stephanopoulos on ABC's This Week to discuss the border crisis, attacks on Israel, and more. Watch the video below:

When is it okay for a politician to discuss impeaching a president? Iowa Republican Senate candidate Joni Ernst is receiving criticism for her responses to questions about impeaching President Obama. Ernst, who won her party's nomination last month, never actually said she supported impeachment.…

Next month former prosecutor Andrew McCarthy will publish his book Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama’s Impeachment. And already the Democratic party is trying to raise money off the title.

Democrats are fundraising off the threat that President Barack Obama will be impeached. It would seem, according to the Democratic Party, that the threat of impeachment is coming from Republicans like Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and Rep. Paul Broun of Georgia.