The final forced impeachment of Donald Trump has ended in the result that should never happen in a show trial. The sacrificial victim of the authorities' spite was acquitted. Jonathan Turley is a reasoned and moderate legal scholar who writes widely on constitutional issues in the United States of America. He has yet to post … Continue reading The impeachment curse
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The impeachment curse
The third impeachment of an American President in my living memory is now drawing to a close: Nixon in 1973-74, Clinton in 1998-99, and Trump in 2019-20. Nixon used government agents to break into the offices of his political opponents and install bugs to spy on them, and then covered up the crime. Clinton's rampant … Continue reading The impeachment curse
Three Lessons of Impeachment
Somewhat to my surprise, I have been engrossed over the last few months by the impeachment of President Trump, and its entanglement with the corrosion of the political institutions and with the retrenchment of the American Empire. It has been something of a rabbit hole of discovery, not just about American politics, which I have … Continue reading Three Lessons of Impeachment
The impeachment of the republic
Over the last week or so amidst some illness, which led me to convalesce in bed for four days, listening to podcasts and watching youtube, and some insomnia, which led me to wake anywhere between two and six am, I have tuned into many hours of the impeachment hearings being conducted in Washington. There appears … Continue reading The impeachment of the republic
