From the Nixon Tapes: John Dean: I think that there’s no doubt about the seriousness of the problem we’ve got. We have a cancer within-close to the presidency, that’s growing. It’s growing daily. It’s compounding. It grows geometrically now, because it compounds itself… Today the husband of the Wicked Witch of the White House, Kellyanne … Read more
Back in January, Yoni Applebaum at The Atlantic wrote Impeach Donald Trump: “Starting the process will rein in a president who is undermining American ideals—and bring the debate about his fitness for office into Congress, where it belongs.” After the release of today’s redacted Mueller Report, Yoni Applebaum follows up with The Mueller Report Is an Impeachment Referral: The … Read more
The U.S. Department of Justice has released Attorney General William Barr’s redacted version of the Mueller Report. Link to DOJ full report (it is too large a file to embed here). The Atlantic has posted Robert Mueller’s Written Summaries of His Russia Report. These summaries are also too large to recount all of the minutia … Read more
While we are awaiting the release of Attorney General William Barr’s redacted version of the Mueller Report later today, I strongly recommend this op-ed from presidential historian and co-author of “Impeachment: An American History,” Jeffrey Engel, in the Washington Post for proper context. Impeachment should be a no-brainer, no matter what the Mueller report says: The … Read more
Last week, a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled that grand-jury testimony and information may be disclosed only to prosecutors, defendants and other grand juries and that judges may not carve out exceptions to the secrecy already mandated by the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. The majority (two Republican … Read more