Duke University associate professor of history Adriane Lentz-Smith (Photo: Duke University)
As the U.S. House impeached President Trump for the second time for “incitement of insurrection” Wednesday afternoon, many legal and political science scholars have decried his behavior and are demanding accountability to the Constitution.
The Constitution lays the ground rules in Article 2, Section 4: “The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”
Ted Shaw, civil rights and constitutional law professor at UNC-Chapel Hill said, “That ‘
shall’ is a powerful word it doesn’t suggest that there are conditions under which anyone who’s guilty of treason, bribery, other high crimes and misdemeanors should be left in office.”
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After 4 1/2 years of unbending loyalty, Vice President Mike Pence is ready to move on from Donald Trump. All it took was the president inciting a riot that, quite literally, put Pence’s life in danger.
“Pence is done with Trump’s bulls t,” said a former Pence adviser. “He’s not going to give a prime time speech saying, ‘F you Donald Trump,’ but in his own way he is going to just get to the finish line and keep his head down.”
The vice president has spent the past few days navigating between two political forces. There is bipartisan praise for his refusal to indulge the president’s unconstitutional ploy for a second term. But the MAGA base he cultivated alongside Trump is now
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One of the darkest moments in (relatively) non-wartime-America was the Capitol riot of Wednesday, January 6, 2021. It was a moment that threatened the domestic peace of the United States of America and will doubtlessly divide the Republican Party (GOP). I was busy writing that day and not paying any attention to the news. The event was brought to my attention, late in the day, by a friend during a telephone conversation. At first, I scrolled through the headlines on Facebook (as a registered Independent, I do nonpa