Impeachment Archives - The American Prospect

And Yet It Moves

The Senate impeachment trial closes; the fact of Trump’s guilt will outlast the Republicans’ fiction-based acquittal

Senate Trial, Day Four: It’s Trump’s war on Pence, even as the insurrection raged, that matters most to swing GOP senators.

Senate Trial, Day Three: If Trump’s not convicted, the prosecutors say, it all could happen again.

Senate Trial, Day Two: The dereliction was even worse than the incitement.

Senate Trial, Day One: The prosecution comes on strong. The defense gets lost in the weeds.

His ‘high crimes and misdemeanors’ should be specified and documented. They include insurrection, false statements, and treason.

A Senate conviction can prevent future Trump candidacies and might annul any self-pardon he could issue before January 20.

Republican devotion to the Great Dictator held. Now Trump is gloating. Was impeachment always a fool’s errand?

The anticlimax of the impeachment saga reinforces the ‘lol nothing matters’ attitude that defines this presidency.

The 10 things you need to understand about the Senate trial and the historic moment our country is in right now