The writer is an author and a lawyer based in Mumbai.
FOR 30 years, Prof Allan S. Lichtman had built up a formidable reputation for predicting accurately the results of presidential elections. He predicted that Donald J. Trump would defeat Hillary Clinton to win the White House. But he predicted also that Trump would not complete his term in his book The Case for Impeachment. His book draws up an indictment of this wayward president flouting the law; conflicts of interest; lies, lies and lies; a ‘war on women’; reversal of policy on climate change; the Russian connection; and abuse of power. Prof Lichtman proposed “the peaceful remedy of impeachment”.