Myrtle Beach, SC A real investigation can surprise its authors. This one is being built so that surprise would be a malfunction. That is the problem I keep coming back to, and it starts earlier than most of the coverage admits. Before there was a select committee there was a bill for an independent commission … Continue reading Should the House January 6 select committee have been constituted as a genuine bipartisan investigative body with minority subpoena rights, or does its design make a predetermined narrative inevitable?
Weekly Correspondents’ Forum 2021
After the Senate acquitted Trump in the February 2021 impeachment trial, did a second impeachment of a former president establish a useful constitutional check, or a precedent that future Congresses will use as a political tail on a lost election?
Gastonia, NC A useful constitutional check has to work when the other tribe holds the House. A tail on a lost election only has to work once. That is where I start, and it is worth being precise about what actually happened, because the shorthand everybody is using is wrong in a way that matters. … Continue reading After the Senate acquitted Trump in the February 2021 impeachment trial, did a second impeachment of a former president establish a useful constitutional check, or a precedent that future Congresses will use as a political tail on a lost election?
