As we enter the 2020 election season I have been trying to do more writing for local and regional outlets here in Pennsylvania. This morning I have an op-ed on the impeachment trial at LNP/Lancaster On-Line (formerly Intelligencer Journal-Lancaster New Era). ...
Lamar Alexander
More GOP Senators Make the “Let the People Decide” Argument to Defend Their Votes for Trump’s Acquittal
Last weekend it was Lamar Alexander. Yesterday it was Lisa Murkowski. Today it was Susan Collins and Joni Ernst. As I argued (with the help of historian Jeffrey Engel) last weekend in the case of Marco Rubio, in an impeachment...
Presidential Censure in Historical Context
Democrats in the Senate believe that Trump should be removed from office. They will vote along these lines tomorrow. But they only have 47 votes. This is well below the 67 votes needed to remove the president from office. In...
Lamar Alexander’s Statement is Full of Historical Problems
If Lamar Alexander wants to oppose witnesses in the Donald Trump impeachment trial he has that right. But spare us the “history” lesson. Alexander statement says: I worked with other senators to make sure that we have the right to...
Who in the Senate Will Have the Courage to Vote Against Party?
Probably no one. It will take 67 United States Senators (2/3rds of the Senate) to remove the soon-to-be-impeached Donald Trump from office in a Senate trial. There are currently 45 Democratic Senators and two independent Senators (who will vote with...