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The author presents the US Constitution's requirements for impeachment and, drawing on her experience as a US Congresswoman and a member of the House Judiciary Committee that voted to impeach Nixon, then presents evidence to prove that President Donald Trump has already fulfilled those requirements.
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Oh, what tangled webs we weave. The farm is hit, by an impeachment ,followed by a virus, that shakes it to its core. During all this, the Squad of cute little rabbits and their fearless leader, Imperitia, have been successful in pulling their party, the Donkeys, to the extreme far left. Fancy the Bat has capitulated to the calls and demands for impeachment as Operation Take Down Pete continues. Her lead attack dog, Shifty the Weasel, leads the charge...
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[2020]
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"Donald Trump's campaign chairman went to jail. So did his personal lawyer. His long-time political consigliere was convicted of serious federal crimes, and his national security advisor pled guilty to others. Several Russian spies were indicted in absentia. Career intelligence agents and military officers were alarmed enough by the president's actions that they alerted senior government officials and ignited the impeachment process. Yet despite all...
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"It was a time, much like today, when Americans feared for the future of their democracy and women stood up for equal treatment. At the crossroads of the Watergate scandal and the women's movement stood a young lawyer named Jill Wine Volner (as she was then known), barely thirty years old and in charge of some of the most important prosecutions of high-ranking White House officials. Called "the mini-skirted lawyer" by the press, she fought to receive...
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The Great Courses
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2018.
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Conclude this lecture series with a study of the "nuclear option" in presidential investigations: impeachment. Learn why impeachment is inevitably as much a political event as a legal one - and why, when a presidency is on the line, public opinion is at least as powerful a determinant of the outcome as the laws that are on the books.
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2014 marks the 40th anniversary of Richard Nixon's resignation from the White House, and no book has captured the extraordinary upheaval of America during the Watergate years better than Elizabeth Drew's Washington Journal. The book that established Drew's reputation as one of the shrewdest and sharpest writers on American politics, this book took in the emerging scandal with tremendous clarity and force. Unfolding over the course of a single year,...
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[2021]
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Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, who found himself at the center of a firestorm for his decision to report the infamous phone call that led to presidential impeachment, tells his own story for the first time. Here, Right Matters is a stirring account of Vindman's childhood as an immigrant growing up in New York City, his career in service of his new home on the battlefield and at the White House, and the decisions leading up...
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With the presidential run of Hillary Clinton, there is renewed and keen interest in the presidency of her husband, Bill Clinton, and his sexual involvement with 21-year-old White House intern, Monica Lewinsky. The sex scandal rocked his administration, leading to Mr. Clinton's impeachment. Franklin Alfred Kirby Edwards, the political essayist, has written a new preface for the official 1998 report by Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr. At the time...
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What can 1868 teach us about 2020? Going to the Devil: The Impeachment of 1868, the first time-ever original narrative documentary from The Great Courses, is a unique retelling of the turbulent events leading up to and through the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson. With back-stabbings, acts of violence, and a cult of personalities, experience the history of this case unfolding like fiction.
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A more-timely-than-ever argument that impeachment is an essential American institution from the author of Horsemen of the Trumpocalypse.
This surprising and irreverent book by one of America's leading political reporters makes the case that impeachment is much more than a legal and congressional process-it is an essential instrument of America's democratic system. Articles of impeachment have been brought sixty-two times in American history. Thomas...
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During the Nixon administration impeachment process, in August, 1974, the U.S. Department of Justice deemed it necessary to have, for its own use, a document outlining the historical and legal aspects of impeachment; thus this document. Impeachment is a seldom-visited aspect of American political life; encountered only twice in the past, during the administrations of Andrew Johnson and Richard Nixon. (And, 24 years later, Bill Clinton.) This is a...
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In Defending the Constitution, Alan Dershowitz-New York Times bestselling author and one of America's most respected legal scholars-makes an impassioned constitutional argument against the impeachment of President Donald Trump, just as he delivered it to the United States Senate.
Alan Dershowitz has been called "one of the most prominent and consistent defenders of civil liberties in America" by Politico and "the nation's most peripatetic civil liberties...
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Investigating American Presidents volume 12
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Conclude this series with a study of the "nuclear option" in presidential investigations: impeachment. Learn why impeachment is inevitably as much a political event as a legal one - and why, when a presidency is on the line, public opinion is at least as powerful a determinant of the outcome as the laws that are on the books.
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Two award-winning journalists offer the most comprehensive inside story behind our most significant modern political drama: the House impeachment of Donald Trump.
Having spent a year essentially embedded inside several House committees, Michael D'Antonio and Peter Eisner draw on many sources, including key House leaders, to expose the politicking, playcalling, and strategies debated backstage and to explain the Democrats' successes and apparent public...
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[2018]
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The author seeks to reorient the debate over impeachment to the same standard that Dershowitz has continued to uphold for decades: the law of the United States of America, as established by the Constitution.
"Alan Dershowitz has been called 'one of the most prominent and consistent defenders of civil liberties in America' by Politico and 'the nation's most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer and one of its most distinguished defenders of individual...
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When a hawkish Congress ordered an attack on Indonesia and a pacifist president countermanded it, Admiral Billings obeyed Congress. Now Billings is facing a Navy court martial for disobedience while Congress prepares to impeach the president. A sequel to Balance of Power.
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We still imagine ourselves a nation of laws, not of men. This is not merely an article of faith but a bedrock principle of the United States Constitution. Our founding compact provides a remedy against rulers supplanting the rule of law, and Andrew C. McCarthy makes a compelling case for using it. The authors of the Constitution saw practical reasons to place awesome powers in a single chief executive, who could act quickly and decisively in times...
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Sybil Norcroft, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.S. has been nominated and confirmed to be the Surgeon General of the United States after a stellar career as a practicing and academic neurosurgeon and as a media darling for Wolf News. But...all is not what it seems to be. Dr. Norcroft is also a consummate spy whose secret life threatens her family and her very existence. The latest threat is to the world, and Sybil must use her role as the Surgeon General to gain...
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