Impeachment

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…

As the pandemic fuels health and economic crises, Republicans are newly concerned they'll lose their crucial Senate majority in November. Of the 35 senators up for reelection this year, 12 are Democrats and 23 are Republicans.While eight of those Republicans are considered vulnerable, just two Democratic seats are at risk of…

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The president wants to weaponize COVID-19 against Biden. There’s a conspicuous irony to his argument. Peter Nicholas May 12, 2020 Paul J. Richards / GettyCOVID-19 has shattered the basic economic rationale President Donald Trump had put forward in running for reelection and forced him to come up with another: Joe…

Photograph: Justin Lane/EPAOn Tuesday morning the supreme court will assemble via conference call to hear oral arguments in three cases involving President Donald Trump’s claimed right to keep his taxes and financial records secret. These are in fact this generation’s most important tests of the nature and limits of presidential…