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Considering impeachment's future Albert Hunt, opinion contributor © Greg Nash Considering impeachment's future After a 100-year hiatus, there have been four impeachment proceedings against a president in less than 50 years. Only the first was fully satisfying; any in the future likely won't get better. As a constitutional weapon, impeachment seems lacking - no president has ever been convicted in the Senate. As a political weapon, the record is mixed. Whatever the wisdom of the Founders, they didn't envision an impeachment process dominated by political parties as it now is...

The New Yorker reveals new details on Democrats' efforts to prevent Donald Trump from stealing the 2020 election

America’s first ‘virtual’ inauguration ushers in a transformed era Robert Draper © Photograph by Andrew Harnik, AP Joseph R. Biden takes the oath to become the 46th president of the United States. “The American story depends not on any one of us, not on some of us, he said in his address, but on all of us, on we the people, who seek a more perfect union.” “Today we celebrate the triumph not of a candidate but of a cause, the cause of democracy,” said Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. moments after being sworn in as the 46 th president of the United States.

You feel about the independent counsel, by his own conduct he has deprived himself of the perceived legitimacy to govern. you need both political and legal legitimacy to govern this nation because the president must be able to demand an absolute sacrifice from the public at a moment's notice. >> i'm joined by two former acting solicitor generals, walter dellinger, neal katyal, whose latest book was invoked today by republicans in the hearing. i want to get your reaction to the arguments presented contra impeachment today both from the dais and from the witness. i'll start first with you, walte...

I don't think either side thinks they're going to convert anyone else. i think the democrats are trying to make a case that the senators that are going to vote on this get to take home and say this is why we did it. i don't think it's a conversion argument because i don't think they think there's anyone that can be converted. >> joy reid, thank you so much for your time. >> thank you. next, the republican defense and the double standard of their sole witness, former acting solicitors general walter dellinger and neal katyal, whose latest book was misquoted at the hearing today, join me in tw...