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Senate Impeachment Trial
Trump Previews Impeachment Defense: It Wasn’t Incitement, It Was Free Speech House Democrats begin to lay out the case of the “grievous betrayal” of his oath of office.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Feb. 20, 2020
Yes, Trump’s Job-Approval Ratings Are Finally Rising It’s unclear whether it’s real and will last, but it’s happening at the perfect time for Trump.
By Ed Kilgore
The Immoderate Susan Collins After a long career voting across the aisle, why did the Maine senator gamble her legacy on Trump?
By Rebecca Traister
Senate Acquits Trump of Impeachment Charges, 52–48 Mitt Romney’s “guilty” vote on the abuse of power article interrupted the party-line conclusion.
By Ed Kilgore
The Senate Impeachment Trial Returns to Its Foregone Conclusion With Trump’s acquittal all but inevitable, the Senate started getting back to normal. That includes taking the weekend off.
By Ben Jacobs
impeachment
Jan. 30, 2020
What We Learned on Day 9 of the Trump Impeachment Trial Lamar Alexander’s decision against hearing witnesses left Democrats pondering final steps before acquittal.
By Ed Kilgore
impeachment
Jan. 30, 2020
Roberts Won’t Let Paul Take Senate Down the Whistleblower Rabbit Hole Paul’s question, which Roberts refused to read, named the whistleblower. But the broader issue is the effort to make Trump’s trial focus on Democrats.
By Ed Kilgore
impeachment
Jan. 29, 2020
What We Learned on Day 8 of the Trump Impeachment Trial There was plenty of conflict on day one of questions, but Republicans seem to be consolidating their wall of shame preventing additional witnesses.
By Ed Kilgore
2020 elections
Jan. 29, 2020
Trump Pit Bull Doug Collins Jumps Into the Georgia Senate Race, Dividing the GOP Appointed GOP senator Kelly Loeffler has a 2020 opponent who is manifestly Trumpier than she is.
By Ed Kilgore
impeachment
Jan. 28, 2020
What We Learned on Day 7 of Trump’s Impeachment Trial Trump’s lawyers shifted their strategy to a “so what?” argument as Republicans continued to fight the idea of hearing John Bolton.
By Ed Kilgore
impeachment
Jan. 27, 2020
What We Learned on Day Six of Trump’s Impeachment Trial The revelations from John Bolton’s manuscript began to sway Republican senators, even as Trump’s lawyers became adversarial.
By Ed Kilgore
impeachment
Jan. 27, 2020
For Republican Senators, Fealty to Trump Is the Only Law Appointed Georgia Senator Kelly Loeffler shivs her old friend Mitt Romney in the name of the president over his call to hear John Bolton’s testimony.
By Ed Kilgore
impeachment
Jan. 27, 2020
The Clinton Trial Rules That Are Shaping Trump’s Trial The precedents set in 1999 are brief and businesslike and provide for later votes on hearing witnesses.
By Ed Kilgore
senate impeachment trial
Jan. 25, 2020
The Impeachment Trial Became Saturday Detention for Senators The mood was subdued as members sat through “Death Valley” and earned a 49-hour break.
By Ben Jacobs
ukraine scandal
Jan. 25, 2020
Watch: Tape of Trump Saying ‘Get Rid of’ Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch The lawyer for former Trump operative Lev Parnas has released the full recording in which the president tells his associates to fire the ambassador.
By Chas Danner
impeachment
Jan. 25, 2020
What We Learned on Day Five of the Trump Impeachment Trial Team Trump took just two hours to preview their case, which mostly revolves around the claim that House Democrats have no real evidence.
By Ed Kilgore
impeachment
Jan. 24, 2020
What We Learned on Day Four of the Trump Impeachment Trial House impeachment managers wrapped up by arguing that Trump’s obstruction of Congress was egregious and ongoing. Next up: the White House’s defense.
By Ed Kilgore
impeachment
Jan. 24, 2020
Republicans Warming to Idea of Calling Their Own Trump Trial Witnesses The thinking is that if Democrats get John Bolton into the dock, the president should get an impeachment witness he wants, like Hunter or Joe Biden.
By Ed Kilgore
impeachment
Jan. 23, 2020
What We Learned on Day Three of the Trump Impeachment Trial Democrats’ Thursday plan focused on the law and the facts underlying the first article of impeachment concerning Trump’s alleged abuse of power.
By Ed Kilgore
impeachment
Jan. 23, 2020
Ratings Show Americans Don’t Care About the Impeachment Trial Enough to Watch It According to TV ratings, fewer viewers are tuning into the trial than to normal programming on MSNBC and Fox News.
By Matt Stieb
impeachment
Jan. 22, 2020
What We Learned on Day Two of the Trump Impeachment Trial House Democrats got a chance to lay out their case without interruption, as Trump raged and senators schemed in the background.
By Ed Kilgore
impeachment
Jan. 22, 2020
The Trump Trial Isn’t a Criminal Proceeding, and the Senators Aren’t Jurors It’s easier to understand an impeachment trial via analogies to criminal proceedings, but it’s dangerously inaccurate, too.
By Ed Kilgore
trump impeachment
Jan. 22, 2020
How Senators Are Coping With Trump Impeachment-Trial Tedium Senators were spotted doing crossword puzzles, passing notes, and chewing gum — and some even paid attention to the proceedings.
By Adam K. Raymond
senate impeachment trial
Jan. 22, 2020
By Madeleine Aggeler
impeachment
Jan. 21, 2020
What We Learned on Day One of the Trump Impeachment Trial Some argued the proceeding showed McConnell had lost his grip on Republican senators — but maybe he actually proved his mastery of them.
By Ed Kilgore
impeachment
Jan. 21, 2020
Trump Gives House Republicans Participation Trophy As ‘Adjunct’ Trial Team Mark Meadows, Doug Collins, and others won’t get to rant and rave and cut capers in the Senate—but they’ll be honorary members of Trump’s legal squad.
By Ed Kilgore
trump impeachment
Jan. 21, 2020
McConnell Dubbed ‘Midnight Mitch’ for Pushing Impeachment Into ‘Dead of Night’ The Republican’s proposal, which would see the impeachment trial last well into the night, have Democrats crying “cover-up.”
By Adam K. Raymond
impeachment
Jan. 19, 2020
Pence Is Right: Trump Is a Lot Like Andrew Johnson Pence embraces the discredited Jim Crow theory of Johnson’s victimization and Reconstruction’s evil. But Trump does emulate his scofflaw behavior.
By Ed Kilgore
impeachment
Jan. 17, 2020
Trump Trial Team Will Include Alan Dershowitz, Ken Starr Apparently Trump craved the lurid spectacle these two disgraced old legal beagles bring to his solemn Senate trial.
By Ed Kilgore
impeachment
Jan. 16, 2020
No Senator Is Less Popular in Their Own State Than Susan Collins Collins has been losing ground with voters on both the left and right. Impeachment is going to make things worse.
By Ed Kilgore
impeachment
Jan. 15, 2020
House Votes to Send Impeachment Articles to Senate Now the impeachment focus really will shift to the Senate.
By Ed Kilgore
impeachment
Jan. 15, 2020
Pelosi Appoints Impeachment Managers, to Be Led by Adam Schiff The managers will trigger the Senate trial once they present articles of impeachment.
By Ed Kilgore
impeachment
Jan. 14, 2020
House to Trigger Senate Impeachment Trial in Wednesday Vote Pelosi says the House will vote Wednesday to name impeachment managers, which likely means Trump’s Senate trial will start next week.
By Ed Kilgore
impeachment
Jan. 13, 2020
It’s Time for Pelosi and McConnell to Make Some Big Impeachment Trial Decisions The impeachment trial schedule should be set by week’s end, and the initial skirmishing in the Senate over rules will soon begin.
By Ed Kilgore
impeachment
Jan. 10, 2020
Pelosi Prepares for Presentation of Impeachment Articles As Early As Next Week Looks like a trial could begin as soon as the week of January 20, unless Pelosi has another trick up her sleeve.
By Ed Kilgore
McConnell Says Trump Trial Could Begin Next Week, Pelosi Says Not So Fast Once articles of impeachment are formally presented in the Senate, a trial begins right away.
By Ed Kilgore
House Republicans Want to Add Some Crazy to Trump Trial Defense McConnell is struggling to keep Trump’s acquittal minimally dignified, but his president and allies in the House have other ideas.
By Ed Kilgore
McConnell Has the Votes to Begin Impeachment Trial Without Witnesses Neither Pelosi’s hold on articles of impeachment nor Bolton’s offer to testify shook Republican unity on beginning the trial without a witness deal.
By Ed Kilgore
Bolton’s Offer to Testify May Not Be a Game-Changer Just Yet Nobody really knows what he will say, and the battle over witnesses in an impeachment trial is far from resolved.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Dec. 30, 2019
My Existential Dread of 2020 The long-awaited reckoning with Trumpism is about to arrive.
By Ed Kilgore
2020 elections
Dec. 23, 2019
Democratic Money Mobilizing to Win Senate It will still be an uphill battle for Democrats, but they have a decent shot at giving a new president a fighting change to succeed.
By Ed Kilgore
impeachment
Dec. 19, 2019
Pelosi Buys Democrats Time With Impeachment Trial Standoff Pelosi may just be trying to squeeze concessions from McConnell, but if the stalemate drags on both both sides may opt to forego a Senate trial.
By Ed Kilgore
impeachment
Dec. 19, 2019
Pelosi Hints at Delaying Senate Trial; McConnell Says ‘I’m in No Hurry’ This looks like a game of chicken that will probably end in the January trial we’ve expected all along.
By Ed Kilgore
impeachment
Dec. 18, 2019
Yes, Trump’s Impeachment Was Partisan. The Others Were Too. For all the hand-wringing about partisanship in Congress today, it’s hardly unprecedented in the brief history of presidential impeachments.
By Ed Kilgore
impeachment
Dec. 18, 2019
Assessing Nancy Pelosi’s Impeachment Wins and Losses The final verdict on this skillful Speaker’s strategy won’t come until after the election, but she’s already achieved some goals and failed at others.
By Ed Kilgore
impeachment
Dec. 17, 2019
McConnell Pretends to Defer to House on Impeachment Evidence McConnell’s two-front war with both parties to keep a lid on a Senate impeachment trial reaches a new level of cynicism.
By Ed Kilgore
impeachment
Dec. 16, 2019
Schumer and McConnell Play Chess Over Impeachment Trial Rules Both parties want witnesses the other side opposes. Despite the posturing, a short trial with no testimony from John Bolton or the Bidens is likely.
By Ed Kilgore
impeachment
Dec. 13, 2019
McConnell Flattering Trump Into Submission on Scope of Senate Impeachment Trial Mitch knows the best way to turn Trump around is to let him think it’s his own idea.
By Ed Kilgore
trump impeachment
Dec. 12, 2019
Senate Democrats May Try to Force a Longer Senate Impeachment Trial Senate Democrats and Donald Trump are the only people talking about a long trial with lots of witnesses.
By Ed Kilgore
trump impeachment
Dec. 10, 2019
Senate Republicans Push Back Against Trump’s Impeachment Show Trial Trump is now promoting a lengthy counter-trial that may alienate some Republicans, but Mitch McConnell is resisting him.
By Ed Kilgore
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