This week, a group of scholars wrote an open letter endorsing the constitutional basis for trying former President Donald Trump in a retroactive impeachment trial. The letter contains many individuals who I know and respect. I encourage you to read their case for such retroactive impeachment. As I have said in every column and posting…
i m chris hayes, happy friday and veterans day. it took a few days, but it is happening. republicans are now at each other s throats, firing squads, finger-pointing, factional disputes, a lot of this stuff happens all the time. sometimes even when the party wins. democrats like doing that stop after victories. but none of this happened in the republican party after 2020. and it didn t happen because donald trump created the big lie of these stolen election, precisely to avoid it. i mean, along with staying in power. but because he was out there saying that it was rigged, a huge portion of the base believing him, there were no autopsies, no introspection, no one got a chance to ask, you know, how did we lose that election? how do we have the first one
‘A Serious Breach of Academic Ethics’: Jonathan Turley Critics and Turley Himself Trade Barbs Over ‘Dangers and Costs’ of Retroactive Impeachment Trials Colin Kalmbacher
George Washington University Law Professor
Jonathan Turley has something of a mixed record when it comes to his support for retroactive impeachment proceedings. And legal commentators made sure to highlight those apparent contradictions in light of President
Donald Trump’s upcoming impeachment trial.
On Sunday, the Fox News contributor set things off with an opinion piece for Fox News arguing the Senate’s planned effort to vote on Trump’s removal and a potential ban on future office-holding faced something of a logical and constitutional shortcoming that made the whole effort, he claimed, somewhat dangerous to the U.S. Constitution’s “future.”