The case attracted several amici, all on Smith’s side, including the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the National Association for Public Defense, the Cato Institute and the Rutherford Institute, and law professors Brian Kalt and Drew Kershen, the latter of whom is cited extensively in the government’s brief. [read post]

             Amidst the predictable chaos, cavalier illegality, and general destruction of the first weeks of the new Trump Administration, it is unfortunately necessary to remember the following fact: there are no foreseeable circumstances under which President Trump could be removed from office through the impeachment process. [read post]

Citing arguments previously made by Professors Laurence Tribe, Brian Kalt, Stephen Vladeck, Michael McConnell, and others, the House managers’ brief explains the historical background of impeachment in British and American colonial practice, places the Constitution’s various impeachment clauses in contextual relationship to each other, and shows that the Senate has, on several occasions, actually tried impeachments of former officials. [read post]