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David Arky / Glowimages / Getty / The … The Two Memos With Enormous Constitutional Consequences
What’s astonishing is that presidential criminal immunity has no grounding in actual law. It’s not in the Constitution or any federal statute, regulation, or judicial decision. It is not law at all.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic 4 Ways to Prevent a Future Insurrection
The country will not survive this twice.
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Bettmann / Getty / The Atlantic Trump’s Election Litigation Will Have Lasting Effects
These lawsuits have upended courts’ role in interpreting voting laws.
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Getty / The Atlantic Congress Needs to End This, Now
The legislative branch is constitutionally charged with checking abuses in the executive branch—and it must act to ensure a smooth transition.
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Getty / The Atlantic Trump’s Lawsuits Are Politics Disguised as a Legal Strategy
His bald complaints are not viable legal claims—and the courts won’t save him.
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The Atlantic Nothing Changes at the Stroke of Midnight Tonight
Counting ballots takes time—and the process isn’t required to arbitrarily stop at the end of Election Day.
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Alexander Drago / Reuters For Trump, Power Is for Self-Preservation Only
During impeachment, Trump claimed far-reaching authority. In a national emergency, he throws up his hands.
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Leah Mills / Reuters Congress Has Lost Its Power Over Trump
Lawmakers had several different ways to limit the executive branch’s power. The president is sweeping all of them aside—and the Senate is going along with it.
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Reuters The Democrats Are Letting Roberts Off Too Easily
By doing nothing to ensure that Trump’s trial gets at the truth, the chief justice is taking a side. And the Democrats are just watching him do it.
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Seth Wenig / AP Senators Know They Don’t Know the Whole Story
As Trump’s impeachment trial looms, much of the relevant evidence remains just out of Americans’ sight.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP The Senate Is About to Abolish Impeachment
A Trump acquittal, coupled with Clinton’s, will gut Congress’s most important check on presidential power.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters When the Facts Are Not Debatable
The House’s two charges against Trump get right to the point, are easy to prove, and precisely describe the threat the president poses to American democracy.
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Jim Bourg / Reuters The House Is Making This Fight Too Easy for Trump
Democrats should try harder to compel testimony from the president’s underlings.
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Eric Thayer / The New York Times / … Conservatives Should Want to Impeach Trump
Outsourcing U.S. diplomacy to Rudy Giuliani was a constitutional violation—one whose gravity Republicans might see if they weren’t so busy making excuses for the president.
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Tom Brenner/ Reuters Trump’s Government Lawyers Don’t Know Who Their Real Client Is
White House and Justice Department attorneys work for the government and the public—but are acting in Trump’s personal interest instead.
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