Impeachment

Joe Biden’s case for the presidency is not hard to understand; it may very well be the least complicated in modern American political history. He is not Donald Trump. He is, by contrast, a thinking, feeling person who engages with and cares very deeply about people who are not Joe…

Seattle man prepares to drop off ballots for the August 4 Washington state primary at King County Elections in Renton, Washington on August 3, 2020 | Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Win McNamee/Jason Redmond/AFP/Getty Images) After impeachment, everyone knows Trump intends to steal the election — so the USPS scandal…

What causes people to draw ethical lines and purport to stand on principle? In February 2016, as it became clearer and clearer that Donald Trump was on track to win the nomination of the Republican Party for president, some of its elites took fright. The hashtag #NeverTrump “blew up” on…

Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a key impeachment witness against President Trump, wrote a scathing op-ed Saturday calling the Trump administration reminiscent of an "authoritarian regime” on the first day of his retirement from the Army.“At no point in my career or life have I felt our nation’s values under greater threat and in more peril than…

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Tom Vanden Brook USA TODAYPublished 11:42 AM EDT Aug 1, 2020WASHINGTON – The retirement of Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a key figure in the impeachment of President Donald Trump, becomes official on Saturday.Vindman submitted his retirement request July 7, one day after his promotion to colonel had been approved by the Pentagon,…

These States Invalidate Mail-In Ballots After Election Day  Newsweek Citing Election Delay Tweet, Influential Trump Ally Now Demands His Re-Impeachment  NPR Video resurfaces of Trump struggling to vote in person in 2004 as he ramps…Read More

Steven Calabresi, co-founder of the Federalist Society, called President Trump's suggestion to delay the November election "fascistic" and grounds for the president’s impeachment, in a New York Times op-ed on Thursday.Why it matters: The Federalist Society is an extremely influential conservative and libertarian organization that advocates for a text-based and…

For the past week or more, many folks in media and politics, including those of us at Salon, have been accusing Donald Trump of sending federal police into Portland, Oregon — and now a bit further north in Seattle — almost entirely to stoke violence that he thinks will help him win…

Season 45 of “SNL” has been a weird one thanks to the coronavirus pandemic shutting down basically everything. But the show has gone on, with NBC putting on several “SNL At Home” episodes thus far during this period of social distancing. In the most recent of those “SNL At Home”…