Impeachment

Dangerous winter storm hits dozens of states, Republicans divided after Trump impeachment acquittal, and high school students speak out about stress and pandemic pressure.Feb. 16, 2021 Read More

RALEIGH, N.C. — The North Carolina Republican Party unanimously approved a resolution Monday to censure Sen. Richard Burr over his vote to convict former President Donald Trump during Trump’s second impeachment trial. Michael Whatley, the state party chairman, said the central committee’s decision serves as a symbolic gesture of the party‘s…

Chris Hayes and House impeachment manager Ted Lieu discuss where democracy stands after Trump's second trial and the ongoing questions about the decision on witnesses.Feb. 16, 2021 Read More

Sen. Ron JohnsonRonald (Ron) Harold JohnsonSunday shows preview: CDC school reopening guidance stirs debate; Texas battles winter freeze Trump ready to make McConnell's life miserable Ossoff named chairman of Senate investigations subcommittee MORE (R-Wis.) in a new interview said he didn't think the Jan. 6 Capitol riot seemed like "an…

On Saturday, the Senate acquitted former President Trump again. However, the lead impeachment manager for the House Democrats, Rep. Jamie Raskin, said the effort was not only a success, but a “dramatic success”: NEW: House Impeachment Manager Jamie Raskin calls impeachment a "dramatic success," states that we "successfully prosecuted" Donald…

It’s an icy Sunday morning in Washington, less than 24 hours after the Senate voted to acquit Donald Trump in the unprecedented impeachment trial of a former president, and Representative Joe Neguse is trying to figure out what it all means. As one of nine House impeachment managers, Neguse prosecuted…

One of the long-running jokes of the Trump era was the notion that its bizarre twists and turns unfolded as though they’d been scripted by a troupe of hack screenwriters, laughing and typing away above, somewhere in the heavens. On Saturday, they gave us what might have been a series…

New polling shows that nearly 60 percent of Americans believe former President Donald Trump should have been convicted in his Senate impeachment trial, which resulted in acquittal on Saturday despite the majority of senators voting to convict. The vote to convict Trump was the most bipartisan of any presidential Senate…

The second impeachment of Donald Trump was an improvement, but only a partial and halting one, over the first impeachment. When he was impeached in 2020 for obstruction of Congress and abuse of power in the Ukrainegate affair, the dividing line was almost entirely partisan. All Republicans in the House…

“Last Week Tonight With John Oliver” made its return Sunday night on HBO after a momentous couple months off the air, and Oliver started things off with the most pressing issue of the moment: that the Democrats, who currently control both the White House and both houses of Congress, don’t…