Impeachment

But the ultimate reaction to the numbing litany of lewd details in the report was an overwhelming public backlash against Starr and the Republicans, which was only exacerbated by the release of Clinton’s own videotaped grand-jury…

Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House, on June 12, 2019. (AP / Evan Vucci) Thank you for signing up. For more from The Nation, check out our latest issue.…

If Pete Buttigieg beats Donald Trump in 2020, he’d support a criminal investigation into the former president.“To the extent that there’s an obstruction case, then yes, DOJ’s got to deal with it,” the South Bend, Indiana, mayor said on…

Former White House counsel for the Nixon Administration John Dean appears before a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Mueller Report on Capitol Hill on June 10, 2019. (AP Photo / Manuel Balce Ceneta) President…

In the end, Collins needn’t have worried. If today’s hearing was a first step toward impeachment, it was a most tentative tiptoe. It was less a prelude to a constitutional confrontation than a law-school seminar, and an opportunity for…

As Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi roamed Normandy on Thursday (she had brought along a contingent of dozens of members of Congress for the official commemoration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of D Day, including veterans from both…

Nancy Pelosi greets Donald Trump ahead of his inauguration ceremony in 2017.(Photo: J. Scott Applewhite - Pool/Getty Images)Democrats have been arguing among themselves for a while now about whether to move ahead with impeachment against…

Queen Elizabeth II poses for a photo with Donald and Melania Trump at Buckingham Palace in London, on June 3, 2019. (AP / Alastair Grant) Referring to “the red-carpet treatment” accorded to Donald Trump and the…

Nancy Pelosi holds her weekly news conference in Washington, DC, on May 23, 2019. (REUTERS / James Lawler Duggan) Thank you for signing up. For more from The Nation, check out our latest issue.…

Read: Impeachment is the song of the summerIn other words, as my colleague Peter Nicholas explained last week, Mueller’s remarks further inflamed Trump’s anger toward the special counsel. So while his tariff announcement was in many ways…