George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley says there are good faith arguments to be made for post-service impeachments, but also notes there are significant countervailing costs.
George Washington University Professor Jonathan Turley will meet with Senate Republicans on Tuesday at their in-person lunch to discuss the constitutionality of the impending impeachment trial for former President Donald Trump.
Turley has argued that the impeachment trial is unconstitutional because Trump is no longer the president. He was invited by Senate GOP leadership, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., plans to discuss the constitutionality question at the lunch.
That the constitutionality of a trial will be discussed among Republicans and that an advocate against its constitutionality will be their lunch guest signals that Senate Republicans may be distancing themselves from the prospect of convicting Trump and barring him from office, something many flirted
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Apparently Republicans are reluctant to appear on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” and host Chuck Todd is peeved.
Mr. Todd took a swipe Sunday at “mainstream” Republican officials, accusing them of “near-silence for the past four years” on the Sunday news talk shows.
“One of the hallmarks of the Trump era that anyone who works for a mainstream Sunday show knows all too well has been the selective silence of a large chunk of the elected leaders of the Republican Party, particularly in the United States Senate,” Mr. Todd said in Politico.