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Trump may be in real trouble from new civil and criminal cases Donald Ayer and Norman Eisen, The Washington Post March 11, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Recent statements by Donald Trump and his enablers prove that he and his Big Lie that the 2020 election was stolen aren't departing from American politics anytime soon. But neither is the push to hold him legally accountable, as shown by a new lawsuit - the second against Trump by a member of Congress arising out of the failed Jan. 6 insurrection. As attorneys who have overseen prosecutions or other accountability efforts in Republican and Democ...

The debate over whether the Senate can hear Trump's impeachment: An explainer Salvador Rizzo, The Washington Post Feb. 9, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.Washington Post photo by Salwan Georges. "This is not a trial of a president, but of a private citizen. . . . This proceeding . . . violates the Constitution." - Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., in remarks on the Senate floor, Jan. 26, 2021 "The theory that the impeachment of a former official is unconstitutional is flat-out wrong by every frame of analysis: constitutional context, historical practice, precedent ...

The stark lesson of the last four years is that the failure to hold a president to account only leads to more conduct for which the president should be held to account.

Senator lee asks of counsel for the president, the house managers have argued aggressively that the president's actions contravened u.s. foreign policy. isn't it the president's place, certainly more than the place of career civil servants, to conduct foreign policy? >> thank you, mr. chief justice, senators, and thank you for that question. it is definitely the president's place to set u.s. foreign policy, and the constitution makes this clear. article ii section 1 vests the entirety of the executive

Good evening. i'm fareed zakaria. when our great-grandchildren study the presidency of donald trump, among the first things they will learn is this. he was impeached. it is a historic judgment on a president that cannot be erased. we don't yet know the rest of trump's story, but we do know he's part of an exclusive club. only three presidents have ever been impeached: trump, bill clinton and andrew johnson. richard nixon resigned when he saw that impeachment was inevitable. each impeachment drama has had its own plot twists. but all spring from the same source: article ii, section 4 of the ame...