There will be 24 hours of presentation by House Impeachment Managers (over 3 days); 24 hours of presentation by Defense team (over 3 days); 16 hours of Senate questioning; 4 hours of closing arguments, equally divided; and then a Senate debate/vote on further motions to include witnesses. If there are going to be witnesses, they […]

As 21 different state attorneys general noted earlier today, there are several reasons why the impeachment effort is unconstitutional. These are not process arguments; they are factual arguments central to the constitutional framework of our government. The failure of a full House vote to authorize the House Judiciary Committee to pursue evidence -via enforceable subpoenas- […]

John Kenneth Galbraith once described politics as “the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.” Those words could not more aptly describe the choice now facing the House managers who lost this case before it began — not because of the Republican majority but because of the House managers’ own historic blunder in […]

Democrats will wrap up their case against Donald Trump on Friday and cede the Senate floor to the president’s legal team, who is under growing pressure from Republicans to mount a credible defense of Trump. And it sets the stage for next week’s big fight in the impeachment trial – whether or not to call […]