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Euroviews. Impeachment is marching through the House. Here's why the Senate is another story ǀ View
The punchline is that the Constitution, for all of its moments of genius, provides certain elected officials with much discretion in one of its most solemn duties — the decision about whether or not to remove a sitting president. We will now see whether that discretion is abused.
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Euroviews. GOP's constitutional objection to impeachment is objectively false — and alarming ǀ View
Some Republican lawmakers and pundits claim the president should be allowed to confront the intelligence community whistleblower whose complaint set off the current firestorm over Donald Trump’s dealings with Ukraine. This argument is utterly preposterous.
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Euroviews. The impeachment hearing eviscerates Trump and shows how he broke the rules of diplomacy ǀ View
In contrast to their day jobs promoting American interests, often through discrete conversations, Taylor, the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, and Kent, the deputy assistant secretary of state for Europe, were asked to publicly testify against an administration and a president they continue to serve.