Impeachment

He’s made the presidency about himself, and now the same is true for down-ballot races. Peter Nicholas May 23, 2020 Drew Angerer / Al Drago / Mark Wilson / Sara Silbiger / Getty / The AtlanticSenate Democrats liked former President Barack Obama, but never feared him; Senate Republicans fear incumbent…

Trump's pick follows 9/11 truther and QAnon conspiracies The Republican-dominated Senate today confirmed Texas GOP Rep. John Ratcliffe as the new director of national intelligence (DNI). He becomes the fourth person to hold the job for Trump in less than one year. The vote was 49-to-44, along party lines. Ratcliffe…

Republicans on Capitol Hill are issuing subpoenas demanding documents and preparing reports directed at damaging former Vice President Joe Biden during the general-election campaign.It's a familiar strategy designed to produce drip-drip revelations and negative media coverage akin to the hits leveled on former Sen. John Kerry in 2004 and Hillary…

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday blocked the disclosure to a Democratic-led House of Representatives committee of grand jury material redacted by President Donald Trump's administration from former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report documenting Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. In a brief order, the justices put on hold…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday temporarily prevented the House of Representatives from obtaining secret grand jury testimony from special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.The court’s unsigned order granted the Trump administration’s request to keep previously undisclosed details from the investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election…

In July, the Democratic-led House Judiciary Committee asked a judge for access to information the Justice Department withheld when it made most of Mueller’s report public. Lawyers for the House said the committee needed the uncut report as part of its impeachment investigation of Trump, but that process eventually went…

A Republican-led United States Senate committee has voted to issue a subpoena as part of its investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden's son, a move that met immediate opposition from Democrats who said the panel should be focused on overseeing the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic. The Senate's…

Democrats in Congress on Saturday launched an investigation into President Donald Trump's firing of the State Department's internal watchdog, accusing the president of further escalating his fight against any oversight of his administration. Trump, in a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi late on Friday, said he no longer had…

Published: May 17, 2020 at 12:17 a.m. ET Move ends flirtation with candidacy that may have introduced new element of uncertainty into the race between Republican Trump and presumptive Democratic nominee Biden Rep. Justin Amash listens to debate on Capitol Hill in Washington in June 2019. Associated Press Michigan Rep.…

A possible pardon of Trump by Biden would represent the second such exoneration of a former president by his successor in modern American history. President Gerald Ford famously pardoned Richard Nixon in 1974 after Nixon resigned from the presidency amid the Watergate scandal, facing the imminent threat of impeachment and…