Dec 04 WATCH: Jonathan Turley’s full opening statement in Trump impeachment hearing By Candice Norwood Turley said that to impeach Trump based on the current evidence “would be to expose every future president to the same type of inchoate impeachment.”… Continue reading
Dec 04 WATCH: Michael Gerhardt’s full opening statement in Trump impeachment hearing By Candice Norwood Gerhardt said, “no one, not even the president, is beyond the reach of our Constitution and our laws,” and added that if Congress does not impeach Trump, the impeachment process “has lost all meaning.”… Continue reading
Dec 04 WATCH: Pamela S. Karlan’s full opening statement in Trump impeachment hearing By Candice Norwood "What has happened in the case before you, is something that I do not think we have ever seen before: a president who has doubled down on violating his oath to ‘faithfully execute’ the laws and to ‘protect and defend… Continue reading
Dec 04 WATCH: Noah Feldman’s full opening statement in Trump impeachment hearing By Candice Norwood Feldman said that, on its own, Trump’s request for Ukraine to investigate former vice president and 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, constitutes “high crimes and misdemeanors” and is an impeachment offense. Continue reading
Dec 04 WATCH: Rep. Collins’ full opening statement in Trump impeachment hearing By Candice Norwood Collins spoke ahead of testimony from Noah Feldman, a Harvard law professor, Pamela S. Karlan, a Stanford law professor, Michael Gerhardt, a University of North Carolina law professor, and Jonathan Turley, a George Washington University law professor. Continue reading
Dec 04 WATCH: Rep. Jerry Nadler’s full opening statement in Trump impeachment hearing By Gretchen Frazee The House Judiciary Committee is holding a public hearing Thursday in the impeachment probe into Trump. Continue reading
Dec 04 WATCH: Legal experts weigh in on impeachment threshold By Associated Press Pamela Karlan of Stanford Law School says Trump's encouragement to Ukraine's president that the Ukrainian leader investigate Trump's Democratic rival Joe Biden is an “especially serious abuse of power because it undermines democracy itself."… Continue reading
Dec 04 Trump calls House Intelligence impeachment report a ‘joke’ By Associated Press The president says impeachment is a "dirty word" that should be reserved for high crimes and misdemeanors. Continue reading
Dec 04 WATCH: Trump willing to compromise national security for ‘personal political gain,’ Nadler said By Associated Press The committee is deciding whether to write articles of impeachment after a House investigation concluded that Trump misused the power of his office for personal political gain when he urged Ukraine's president to investigate U.S. Democrats. Continue reading
Dec 04 USDA says hundreds of thousands of Americans will lose SNAP benefits under new rule By Associated Press The finalized rule, announced Wednesday, will restrict states from exempting work-eligible adults from having to obtain steady employment in order to receive benefits through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which helps feed more than 36 million Americans. Continue reading