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opinion
Speeding Toward Impeachment in the Absence of Facts
The Democrats’ case for impeaching President Donald Trump boils down to this: the accusation that he solicited, demanded, perhaps even coerced a foreign government to help him get reelected. Such behavior, they contend, constitutes an impeachable offense. The most important task for the Senate when it conducts a trial on that article of impeachment is to determine… -
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Impeachment Charade, Faculty Lounge Edition
Another chapter in the House impeachment melodrama unfolded this week. The proceedings shifted from Adam Schiff’s Intelligence Committee to the Judiciary Committee, which is run by another Democratic member of Congress, Jerry Nadler of New York. Last month, Schiff’s failed approach was to bring down the president by bringing in a whole cavalcade of intelligence… -
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Impeachment Witnesses Have Failed to Prove Trump Guilty
As House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., passed the impeachment inquiry baton to the Judiciary Committee this week, he said the central allegation against President Donald Trump is that the president “solicited foreign interference in the 2020 presidential election.” This accusation will likely be the heart of any articles of impeachment the Judiciary Committee produces against the president…. -
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Liberal Law Professors at Hearing Fail to Make Case for Impeachment
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler opened Wednesday’s impeachment hearing with testimony from three left-wing law professors who consider President Donald Trump to be evil incarnate. If Nadler thought this display would somehow convince the public that the president’s actions merit impeachment, he is sure to be disappointed. The three professors simply failed to make the case. Nadler’s witnesses… -
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6 Big Moments From Day 1 of the Second Round of Impeachment Hearings
The House Judiciary Committee, holding its first day of impeachment hearings Wednesday, heard from four legal scholars on the case for and against removing President Donald Trump from office less than a year before a presidential election. After five days of public hearings over two weeks, the House Intelligence Committee submitted its report—contested by the… -
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House GOP Report Contends Impeachment Drive Advances Rule by Bureaucrats
The Republican response to House Democrats’ impeachment case asserts that “evidence does not establish” that President Donald Trump used U.S. military aid for personal political ends, while arguing that the findings amount to a policy disagreement in which unelected bureaucrats seek a final say over an elected president. “In our system of government, power resides… -
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Impeachment Crusade Is Bound to Backfire on the Left
As the impeachment season drones on, and Democrats continue down the path of self-destruction, one wonders if there is an exit ramp for them. Before Donald Trump was even the Republican nominee for president, people in positions of power started their malevolent acts against him and his campaign, mostly in private. Democrats and the left… -
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We Hear You: House Democrats Make Impeachment a ‘Third-Rate Circus’
Editor's note: House Democrats' drive to impeach President Donald Trump sparks some strong sentiments from The Daily Signal's audience. Here's a sampling.—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: I just read Katrina Trinko’s podcast interview with Heritage Foundation legal expert Hans von Spakovsky on House Democrats' impeachment inquiry, and found it to be very enlightening (“Impeachment Evidence… -
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6 Big Moments From Day 5 of Public Impeachment Hearings
Two career foreign policy officials testified Thursday that President Donald Trump altered U.S. policy toward Ukraine for a political agenda of going after former Vice President Joe Biden. Fiona Hill, a former official with the National Security Council who was Trump’s adviser on Russia, and David Holmes, political counselor to the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine’s… -
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Problematic Women: Christine Blasey Ford, Chick-Fil-A, and Impeachment
On this week’s episode of “Problematic Women,” we tackle the news you need to know in a rapid-fire format: Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., is called “trash” by feminists who oppose her role in House Democrats’ impeachment hearings. Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, wins an award for courage from the ACLU. The “Charlie’s Angels”… -
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7 Key Moments From Gordon Sondland’s Testimony on Day 4 of Public Impeachment Hearings
Gordon Sondland, U.S. ambassador to the European Union, delivered an apparently mixed message Wednesday to lawmakers about what President Donald Trump wanted from Ukraine. In the fourth day of House Democrats’ public impeachment hearings, Sondland first testified that there was a “quid pro quo” in which Ukraine’s new president would have to announce specific investigations… -
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7 Big Moments From Day 3 of the Public Impeachment Hearings
Two experts on Ukraine who listened in on President Donald Trump’s phone call with the former Soviet republic’s new leader testified Tuesday on the third day of House Democrats’ public impeachment hearings. The impeachment inquiry sprang from allegations that Trump pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during that call to investigate the Ukrainian business dealings of… -
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Left’s Rhetoric in Impeachment Hearings Reveals Desperation
If you are in need of more evidence as to why so many Americans are cynical about politics in general and Washington in particular (and isn’t current evidence sufficient?), you need look no further than the etymological shift taken by Democrats during the House impeachment hearings. As The Washington Post first reported, the decision to… -
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These Are the 8 Witnesses Set to Testify at This Week’s Impeachment Hearings
The second week of House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry is moving out of the “heard it from a friend” stage to focus on witnesses who actually listened in on the phone call between President Donald Trump and the president of Ukraine, or who talked directly with Trump about administration policy toward the former Soviet republic. Here’s… -
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Trump Suggests He’ll ‘Consider’ Testifying in Impeachment Inquiry
President Donald Trump said Monday that he will “strongly consider” testifying in House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry. “Even though I did nothing wrong, and don’t like giving credibility to this No Due Process Hoax, I like the idea & will, in order to get Congress focused again, strongly consider it!” the president said in a tweet, referring… -
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6 Key Moments From Day 2 of the Public Impeachment Hearings
The Obama administration instructed her on how to respond to lawmakers’ questions about the lucrative employment of Vice President Joe Biden’s son by an energy company in Ukraine, the ousted ambassador to the former Soviet republic testified Friday. Marie Yovanovitch, who was recalled and reassigned six months ago, also said she felt threatened by President… -
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Trump Impeachment Not Justified by Evidence and Testimony Made Public So Far
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., hasn’t yet produced most of his witnesses in the public impeachment hearings regarding President Donald Trump. But if the State Department’s George Kent and acting Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor are representative of the testimony Democrats are relying on, future historians may label this episode “The Big Impeachment Blowout.”… -
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Everything You Need to Know About What’s Happening in Impeachment Process
“Democrats are intent on impeaching President Trump for something. It really doesn’t matter to them what it is,” says Heritage Foundation legal scholar Tom Jipping. He joins the podcast to explain why lawyers, not lawmakers, are doing much of the questioning; what’s next for the impeachment process; and what the main takeaways are from the… -
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Here Are the Backgrounds of 4 Lawyers for Impeachment Witnesses
The lawyer for one of the first witnesses at House Democrats’ public impeachment hearings has a resume that includes the Obama White House, former Vice President Al Gore’s office, and House Democrats themselves. The lawyer for another impeachment witness in the public process raised the specter of impeaching President Donald Trump in 2018, has represented…