What does the term impeachment mean?When Government Officials Do WrongWhen crafting the Constitution, the Founding Fathers believed that individuals with the highest integrity were best fit to be a part of the government. While civic duty was celebrated among them, they also understood that no man...
Agree with Laura on this one. lee.drutman:Well, we’re not going to get more than two successful parties until we change the way we vote. A more proportional voting system would allow those different parties to operate independently of one another. And this would be a very good thing, as...
Scandal Vote Nears, End Does Not the Senate Nears Vote on Impeachment Articles, but Other Inquiries Willtie Up Washington Politics IndefinitelyJames N. Thurman, writer of The Christian Science Monitor
Does impeachment nullify the 22nd Amendment? Does the House vote on Cabinet nominees? How long does the Senate majority leader serve? Who appoints the Speaker of the House? Who becomes president after the Speaker of the House? What is the Speaker of the House of Commons? What does the Speak...
Vice President Mike Pence vote to pass a resolution during a meeting of the Security Council to discuss peacekeeping operations during the 72nd United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., September 20, 2017. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson By Michelle Nichols ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — PresidentJoe Bidenin his Wednesday farewell speech to the nation warned that American democracy wassliding into an “oligarchy” of tech billionaires. But what exactly is an oligarchy? What is an oligarchy? In short, an oligarchy is an elite few who...
of the House again is really a fight over what Democrats should want in a speaker. Do they need someone skilled at the inside game — tucking small-but-significant provisions into appropriations bills orconvincingother House Democrats to campaign on health care a lot and impeachment almost never...
WASHINGTON, DC — US President Donald Trump’s presidency is in peril. He’s likely to be impeached (the equivalent of an indictment) by the House of Representatives, and it cannot be ruled out entirely that the Senate will vote to convict him and thus r
Jennifer Kavanagh, director of military analysis at Defense Priorities, said the U.S. decision would not alter the course of the war. “To really impose costs on Russia, Ukraine would need large stockpiles of ATACMS, which it doesn’t have and won’t receive because...
Mike_Warren: So when we say the electorate (to take that to start), we’re talking about the people who vote in Republican primaries and for Republicans in the general election, right? David_Byler: Yeah that’s what I was thinking — basically the voters. ...