Donald Trump is now the subject of a second impeachment trial. Although Democrats were initially optimistic, it is unlikely to succeed given the position of Republicans.
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There is good news and bad news for Prime Minister Scott Morrison in the first Newspoll for 2021.
The story of the ‘Cadaver Synod’ tells us that in some cases, even the departed can be held to account.
Senate Republicans must now decide whether to convict the president — an unlikely outcome. But even if they do, purging Trump from the party will prove more difficult.
Even though a House majority voted to impeach, President Trump, the process will likely not be finished before he’s left office. A philosopher argues why the impeachment is an important moral action.
Words have consequences. And decades of research supports the contention that Donald Trump’s words could in fact incite people to mount an insurrection at the US Capitol.
Removing Trump from office in nine days is virtually impossible. Congress can impeach now and try him later, but this could distract from President-elect Joe Biden’s all-important first 100 days.
Calls have emerged from many sources for Congress or the Cabinet to remove Trump from office in the wake of the U.S. Capitol incursion Jan. 6. Who could act, and what could they do?
Peru is the latest in a chain of Latin American countries where a leader has been removed via a ‘parliamentary coup’.
President Trump isn’t the first president to get rid of inspectors general. He is the first to assert that inspectors general investigations into his administration’s actions are unconstitutional.
The Constitution provides Congress with plenty of tools to hold the White House to account. So what moves does the legislative branch have left?
What the acquittal of Donald Trump means for the future of the US presidency.
President Trump’s impeachment defense that the will of the president is no different from the will of the state and the good of the people has echoes in the decline of ancient Rome’s democracy.
In 1868, during the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson, the Senate tied on two votes. Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase broke both ties.
Calling witnesses and reviewing documents fit the Founders’ goals for impeachment to curb the president’s unilateral power.
Falsehoods about Andrew Johnson have become a staple of Republican arguments opposing the impeachment of Trump.
President Trump’s likely to be acquitted by the Senate in his impeachment trial. But the impeachment’s effects won’t end until lawsuits are resolved.
Trump’s backers say he is shielded from removal as no criminal offense took place. But this view may be at odds with the original intent of the impeachment clause.
Post-truth questions the very nature of truth itself – that’s why it’s so dangerous.
Certain words are being used over and over during the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. One of them is ‘precedent.’ What does it really mean?
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Professor of law and ethics, Georgia State University
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Foundation Professor of Law and Political Science, Arizona State University
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Professor of Law and Adjunct Professor of Political Science, Wayne State University
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Assistant Professor in Political Science, University at Buffalo
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Research Specialist, the Miller Center, University of Virginia
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Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne
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Professeur d'Histoire et civilisation US, Université Paris Cité
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Professor in U.S. Politics and U.S. Foreign Relations at the United States Studies Centre and in the Discipline of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of American Politics, De Montfort University
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Professor of Philosophy, Public Policy and Governance, University of Washington
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Professor of Languages and Linguistics and Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, McMaster University
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The E. William Davis Jr, M.D. Professor of Medical Ethics and Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University
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Professor of Law and Director, Health Law Program, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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Williams Memorial Professor of Law, Northwestern University
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Dennis Altman is a Friend of The Conversation.
VC Fellow, La Trobe University
