Impeachment

The Week’s daily round-up highlights the five best opinion pieces from across the British and international media, with excerpts from each.1. Michael McGough in the Los Angeles TimesEt tu, Mitt? Romney makes the wrong call on Supreme Court confirmation“Romney’s disappointing decision chips off a good chunk of the pedestal on…

In earlier chapters of American history, bad presidents eventually led to good government. Andrew Johnson’s stupendous failures after the Civil War spurred Radical Republicans to take command of Reconstruction, briefly turning the American South into a multiracial democracy. Richard Nixon’s downfall in the Watergate scandal in 1974 inspired a decade’s…

Senate Republicans have released their controversial report on Joe Biden and his son Hunter’s former dealings with Ukraine in a politically-charged move to taint Biden’s campaign weeks out from Election Day.The investigation, which was spearheaded by Sens. Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) focuses on Hunter Biden’s work for…

On Friday night, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death shocked an already reeling country. What came next, however, was sadly unsurprising. Mere hours after Ginsburg’s passing, McConnell had already affirmed that he would hold a vote for Trump’s nominee to fill the vacancy, contravening the ersatz standard he set…

Courtney Subramanian   | USA TODAY WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump insisted Monday that he welcomes the threat of a second impeachment by Democrats if he is successful in his push to fill the Supreme Court seat vacated by the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg."Go ahead ... I want them to do it,"…

President Donald Trump on Monday spoke about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi refusing to rule out impeachment to stop him from nominating a replacement for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court. “Go ahead. I want them to do that … I’m the only guy in the world that could…

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on Sunday would not rule out impeaching President Donald Trump or Attorney General William Barr if the Senate seeks to push through a Supreme Court nomination during the lame-duck session should Joe Biden win the November election.Speaking with ABC's "This Week," host George Stephanopoulos asked…

WASHINGTON — It was the day before Donald Trump’s inauguration and Turkey’s top diplomat was looking to make inroads with the new administration.At Washington’s Watergate Hotel, Turkey’s foreign minister, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, sat down with Brian Ballard, a well-connected lobbyist serving as vice chairman of Trump’s inaugural committee.Also at the table…

On Tuesday, celebrity lawyer and media commentator Alan Dershowitz sued CNN for allegedly misrepresenting comments he made defending Republican President Donald Trump during Trump's 2020 impeachment hearing.The comments in question occurred in late January 2020 when Dershowitz responded to a question from Republican Texas Senator Ted Cruz on whether Trump's…

In an exclusive TV interview with Lester Holt, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman — a key witness in President Trump’s impeachment hearings — discusses his dismissal from the National Security Council and the call he heard between Trump and Ukraine's president in July 2019. An NSC spokesperson responded, saying: “This is…