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Elections

Imagining a different presidential contest

A post-Biden candidate should bring something more to the table than non-Trumpness.

The Hill

Impeachment is just another weapon in a time of deep polarization

“You had people who cared about our country and knew that Nixon had done unconstitutional and illegal things.”

Barbara Perry

Supreme Court

Yes, the Fourteenth Amendment Covers the Presidency

The Supreme Court should not twist the Constitution for Trump.

The Messenger

Biden’s ‘low-drama’ green Cabinet is sticking around

“Biden just generally is very low drama,” said Kathryn Dunn Tenpas, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution who studies turnover in presidential administrations. That applies both to turnover in his Cabinet as well as other senior positions that don’t require Senate confirmation. “You don’t hear much about when people are leaving. And when you do, there’s always a successor lined up, so it seems like they knew this departure was planned."

Kathryn Dunn Tenpas

As House Republicans Veer Right, Moderates Like Jen Kiggans Come Under Fire

Jennifer Lawless, chair of the politics department at the University of Virginia, said Speaker Kevin McCarthy has done a "terrible job" protecting his moderate members from taking tough votes, especially in wake of the impeachment inquiry brought forth against President Joe Biden.

Jennifer Lawless

Biden impeachment inquiry latest front in fight for reelection

Other experts cautioned that Biden could actually see a positive consequence from the inquiry similar to former President Bill Clinton's impeachment over his affair with Monica Lewinsky, which led to Democrats gaining five House seats, one of only two times since 1934 that the president's party gained House seats during the midterm elections while blocking Republicans from gaining any more seats in the Senate. "The 1998 midterm election, it's not completely unprecedented, but it was almost unprecedented in terms of the support that Clinton was able to generate in November of 1998 when all the impeachment furor was reaching its peak," said Russell Riley, co-chair of the University of Virginia's Miller Center’s Presidential Oral History Program.

Russell Riley