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14 Jan 2021, 11:35 am by Josh Blackman
Ultimately, Johnson was never convicted on this charge, in part, because pivotal Republican Senators insisted that the First Amendment protects the President's freedom of speech. [read post]
14 Jan 2021, 8:59 am by Robert N. Stavins
The budget reconciliation process, whereby only a simple majority is needed to pass legislation, rather than the 60 votes required to cut off Senate debate, can be used to reverse some of Trump’s last-minute policies that are connected to the tax code or mandatory spending if every Democrat or enough Republicans to make up for any defections support the given move. [read post]
13 Jan 2021, 10:58 pm
I, Section 10, clause 1, so the Founders must have considered this restriction as essential to our republican form of government. [read post]
13 Jan 2021, 9:01 pm by Lesley Wexler and Colleen Murphy
Others are moving forward with impeachment in hopes that the Senate would choose to convict the President and also permanently preclude Trump from holding “any office of honor, trust or profit under the United States. [read post]
13 Jan 2021, 9:00 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
For example, lame-duck Republican Senator Pat Toomey has been a study in contradictions. [read post]
13 Jan 2021, 4:21 pm by INFORRM
Should this impeachment succeed it would make Trump the first President to be impeached twice whilst in office following his acquittal by the Republican majority Senate in early 2020 of his first impeachment. [read post]
The vote was bipartisan with 10 Republicans breaking ranks to vote with the Democrats for impeachment. [read post]
13 Jan 2021, 2:47 pm by Jeralyn
There will be a Senate trial after Joe Biden takes office. [read post]
13 Jan 2021, 1:56 pm by Benjamin Wittes
More importantly, it’s not at all clear that the votes in the Senate exist to convict Trump, particularly given the relative Republican unity in the House, and a second Senate acquittal would certainly muddy the message the House sent today. [read post]
13 Jan 2021, 12:43 pm by Ilya Somin
Several House Republicans plan to vote for impeachment, most notably Rep. [read post]
13 Jan 2021, 11:32 am by Tia Sewell
Some Republicans have embraced the article of impeachment, which accuses Trump of inciting violence against the U.S. government. [read post]
13 Jan 2021, 11:13 am by Robbie Kenney
Senate Republican Leader Tom Kean released the following statement on Senate Democrat Leader Loretta Weinberg’s decision not to run for reelection after nearly 30 years in the Legislature: Senate Republic Leader Tom Kean responded to Senate Democrat Leader Loretta Weinberg’s announcement that she would retire at the end of this term. [read post]
That same day, a resolution calling for Vice President Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment was blocked by Senate Republicans. [read post]
13 Jan 2021, 5:17 am by David Post
It would allow—not guarantee, but allow—the Republican Party to reconstitute itself as a voice of principled conservativism, rather than of slavish devotion to whatever whims had seized Donald Trump that morning. [read post]
13 Jan 2021, 5:00 am by Keith E. Whittington
How many Democratic politicians would a Republican majority in Congress be willing to disqualify from holding future office given their expressed views on various protests turned riots? [read post]
12 Jan 2021, 6:51 pm by Sandy Levinson
” It featured a rampage by American citizens, goaded by Donald Trump (but enabled as well—and as importantly—by many other Republicans, including Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz, most prominently in the Senate). [read post]
12 Jan 2021, 1:34 pm by Ilya Somin
Graham, an influential GOP senator, could urge the same course of action on his Senate colleagues. [read post]
12 Jan 2021, 1:04 pm by Jonathan Azzara
Senator Jim Holzapfel, Assemblyman Greg McGuckin, and Assemblyman John Catalano (all R-10) conveyed disappointment and concern upon listening to Governor Phil Murphy’s 2021 State of the State Address. [read post]