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Pat Leahy
impeachment trial
Jan. 19, 2021
Trump’s Second Impeachment Trial Will Be a Democratic Production
The question of whether a former president can be tried and then banned from future office will hang over Trump’s second trial from the get-go.
By
Ed Kilgore
supreme court
Sept. 25, 2020
Senate Democrats Want Barrett to Step Aside If Supreme Court Gets Election Case
It would make
Bush
v.
Gore
look like child’s play to rush through a Supreme Court nominee who then rules on Trump’s political fate.
By
Ed Kilgore
the kavanaugh hearings
Sept. 27, 2018
Senate Dems Deftly Highlighted GOP Insensitivity Toward Christine Blasey Ford
Feinstein set the hearing’s tone by noting the historic mishandling of sexual-assault claims, while GOP senators looked feckless and uncomfortable.
By
Ed Kilgore
Oct. 11, 2017
McConnell Pulls Out the Stops to Smooth Path for Trump’s Judicial Nominees.
GOP used the “blue slip” tradition that let senators veto home-state judges to thwart Obama nominations. Now they’re denying Democrats the same power.
By
Ed Kilgore