Whatever private humiliation he may feel over the historic House vote, he stuck, in public, to the line that it was “an eternal mark of shame,” not for him but for the Democrats.
Weeks of Republican obduracy in committee hearings highlight the quandary faced by the House Speaker: impeachment cannot function properly in an age of hyper-partisanship.
In response to legislation approved last week by the Prime Minister, Indians are taking to the streets en masse, prompting crackdowns by the Army and police.
What George W. Bush seemed not to know, in September, 2001, is that a self-justifying drive to “rid the world of evil” can itself become evil’s incubator. Does America know that yet?
The procedures and norms that govern two of the most serious processes carried out by government—impeaching a President and reviewing a federal investigation—were shredded.
The late Justice made the argument, still popular today, that we should be bound forever to the ideas of the group of eighteenth-century men who framed the Constitution.
The madness of the moment lies in looking at how this came to pass, at how many people had to give up on the idea of democracy for things to come to this.
