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Give Voting Rights to U.S. Territories


The Atlantic
We deserve nothing less than the full rights of citizenship, including the right to vote.
March 11, 2021
Sarah Silbiger / The New York Times
Last month, I served as a House impeachment manager in the trial of President Donald Trump. My presence on the floor of the U.S. Senate carried a great deal of meaning for me. It also said a lot about America. A Black girl who split her childhood between housing projects in Brooklyn and St. Croix could grow up to become a member of Congress who holds a former president to account. But I was the only Black woman in the room. And although I was making the case for convicting Trump, I hadn’t been able to cast a vote in the House to impeach him. My constituents in the Virgin Islands U.S. citizens remain unable to vote for president, lack any voice in the Senate, and have only a nonvoting delegate in the House. ....

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The First Amendment Is No Defense Against Impeachment


The Atlantic
The First Amendment does not limit the removal and disqualification powers conferred on Congress by the Constitution.
February 8, 2021
Getty / The Atlantic
Front and center in former President Donald Trump’s defense this week will be the argument that convicting him and disqualifying him from holding future office would violate his First Amendment rights that it would essentially amount to punishing him for speaking his mind. His new lawyer, David Schoen, has warned that convicting Trump “is putting at risk any passionate political speaker, which is against everything we believe in in this country.”
That is wrong. Even if the First Amendment protected Trump from criminal and tort liability for his January 6 exhortation to the crowd that later stormed the Capitol, it has no bearing on whether Congress can convict and disqualify a president for misconduct that consisted, in part, of odious speech that rapidly and foreseeably resulted in deadly ....

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