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Senate Republicans are trying to hide behind the Constitution — improperly — to once again avoid addressing the merits of a strong impeachment case against Donald Trump.

Alan Dershowitz Says Senate Lacks Jurisdiction to Hold Trump’s Impeachment Trial Jerry Lambe PBS screengrab After being impeached by the House of Representatives for his role in inciting the attack on the U.S. Capitol earlier this month, at least one major question still hangs over the post-presidency of Donald Trump: Does the U.S. Senate have the constitutional authority to try him now that he’s no longer in office? While the manylegalscholars seem to agree that a former o...

Marshall Project this week has a timely three-part series in which leading conservatives working on and advocating for criminal justice reform are setting out the conservative case for reforms. The first commentary was authored by Pat Nolan and carried the subheadline "Focus on intent, tailor the punishment to the crime, prepare prisoners for life after incarceration." The second in the series here is authored by Vikrant Reddy and carries the subheadline "End overcriminalization, reward success...

The day the music died  Don Mclean   We live in troubling times. The American election is over but the popular belief that it was fraudulently engineered shows no sign of abating. The evidence that a vast conspiracy has occurred, particularly in several swing states, is convincing for a significant portion of the electorate, and the complicity of a censoring media apparatus is undoubted. Even reputable conservative thinkers and writers, while deploring the current state of political events, s...

Can the Senate ban Donald Trump from running for president again in 2024 if he's convicted in an impeachment trial? Here's what to know about the disqualification process.

Poll: Most Americans Think Trump Deserves to Be Removed After Capitol Chaos Trump supporters storm the U.S. Capitol following a rally with President Trump on January 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C. Samuel Corum / Getty Images Most Americans want Trump himself to be reprimanded for his role in instigating thousands of his supporters to breach the United States Capitol building Wednesday, according to a new poll. According to a YouGov Direct poll conducted earlier this week, 50 percent of responden...

01/06/2021 “Professor McConnell’s extensive study of the substance and scope of presidential power under the Constitution has convinced me that the unifying capacity of the Constitution could perhaps be revived.” Disagreement and deep-seated difference are not alien realities to American political life. From the founding onwards, the United States of America has been replete with divisions running along fraught lines of race, region, religion, ethics, culture, and worldview. In the face o...