The Senate can, by majority vote, set up any procedures it wants for an impeachment trial. The only constitutional limitations are that the chief justice of the Supreme Court will preside over any tri
A lawyer friend writes: The WP has an “analysis” piece in which the lead takeaway from the phone account is that there is no explicit quid pro. Oh my fucking God. Zelensky says that they&#
An entire presidency teetering because a couple of outer-borough goombahs are punching above their weight and tried to shake down a foreign leader like he's the Brooklyn land commissioner. https:/
More Nth Dimensional Chess from the very stable genius. Peter Baker of the NYT weighs in.
The funniest thing about Trump’s Ukrainian catastrophe is that it was motivated by his fear of an opponent who was never going to win anything anyway. Rudy Giuliani was the Joe Biden of the 2008
This is a really useful piece about nonpartisan voters from Lee Drutman: Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Independent voters will decide the election. Or better yet: Moderate voters will dec
This is the grave of John Adams. As with Jefferson the other day, I’m not sure that it is really necessary to provide an entire biography of John Adams, much of which has become pretty well-know
My guess as to how the Trump people are going to play the Ukraine scandal is that they’ll admit that Rudy Giuliani did in fact try to bribe and extort the Ukrainian government into digging up or