Rep. Greg Stanton Comes Out in Favor of Impeachment

Greg Stanton today released the following statement: It is time for the House of Representatives to move to the next stages of holding the President accountable, including the extraordinary step of opening an impeachment inquiry.  This is a conclusion I reached only recently, and not one I reached lightly. The Special Counsel’s redacted report detailed … Read more

Dear Nancy Pelosi: Duty Calls

Senator Elizabeth Warren early on expressed the moral clarity that is needed at this hour of constitutional crisis: ‘there’s no political-convenience exception to the US constitution’ when it comes to impeaching Trump. “[T]he tool that we are given for that accountability is the impeachment process. This is not about politics, this is about principle. This … Read more

A response to Robert Mueller’s objection to testifying before Congress

I think David Atkins at the Political Animal blog gets it exactly right. Dear Robert Mueller: Not Testifying Publicly Is an Intensely Political Decision: Robert Mueller deserves some props for trying to be a consummate professional, avoiding political theater and playing the part of the guarded, hyper-competent institutional loyalist. But there are times when that … Read more