Senator Mitt Romney’s courageous vote to convict President Donald Trump on the impeachment charge of the abuse of power, a valiant effort to protect American Constitutionalism against the entrenchment of an authoritarian in the White House, ensured his legacy as a man of conscience and historic standing.
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An oath of office establishes a moral commitment to faithfully discharge official duties and responsibilities. Members of the U.S. Senate have sworn an oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies, “foreign and domestic.” In an additional oath, integral to the performance of their duties in the impeachment trial of …
The impeachment inquiry into President Donald J. Trump will affect the future of his presidency and could affect “the future of the Presidency,” Rep. Adam Schiff, Chair of the House Intelligence Committee justly stated. He might have added that what is at stake in the hearings is nothing less than …
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President Donald Trump’s radical assertion on July 23, 2019, that Article II of the Constitution gives him “the right to do whatever I want as president,” is an affront to the fundamental purposes of the Constitution and a declaration wholly ignorant of what every student learns in history, government and …
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President Trump’s defiance of congressional subpoenas— “to fight them all”—represents a profound and unprecedented threat to constitutional government and the rule of law. Trump’s contumacy, if successful, would create a moat around the White House, rendering the president inaccessible and unaccountable to the first branch of government, and shackling the …
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Last January, before the first primaries and caucuses, I predicted in a luncheon talk before the Idaho Falls Rotary Club, that Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump would become the candidates of their respective parties in the 2016 presidential campaign. Jaws dropped when I explained why Trump would defeat a field …
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