Impeachment

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…

On January 6, terrorists—encouraged by former President Donald Trump and enabled by his Republican supporters in Congress—attacked the United States Capitol. And as they came for the republic, they also came for something else: Beltway journalists. This is true in the literal sense, as rioters etched “Murder the Media” into…

Susan Page   | USA TODAY WASHINGTON – The impeachment trial of Donald Trump is over, again. The 2020 election?  Not so much. November’s contest wasn’t close – Joe Biden won it by more than 7 million votes – but its aftermath and the candidate who lost continue to cast a shadow…

Democrats have less than 2 years to make sure America never has another president who would incite a mob against his own government. End the filibuster. Jason Sattler  |  Opinion columnist A grand total of seven Republican senators.  That’s how many members of the so-called world's greatest deliberative body were willing…

There has been a lot of news since Last Week Tonight with John Oliver last aired in November, such as the launch of the vaccine rollout, Wall Street’s Game Stop extravaganza and a week-long obsession with sea shanties — whatever that was about. That said, Oliver decided to usher in season…

Now a private citizen, Trump is stripped of his protection from legal liability that the presidency gave him Topics Donald Trump | Impeachment AP  |  Washington  Last Updated at February 15, 2021 10:07 IST Donald Trump's acquittal at his second impeachment trial may not be the final word on whether he's to…