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From the director: The staggering power of impeachment

The Miller Center is committed to bringing light, not heat, to a painful time in our national history.

At least 228 house Democrats support the impeachment inquiry

Former ambassador Bill Taylor testified today behind closed doors. To discuss the impeachment inquiry and newest developments, UNews spoke to Chris Lu, who served under President Obama as the White House's cabinet secretary.

Chris Lu

Trump compares impeachment probe to ‘lynching,’ again prompting political firestorm around race

Trump’s erratic behavior, combined with his penchant for offending minorities, has only made it harder for Republicans to coalesce around an impeachment defense, said Russell Riley, a presidential historian at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. “His use of this word, likening this to a lynching, is not a part of any strategic approach but is a manifestation of an impulse to fight back with the most incendiary language that he could muster,” Riley said.

Russell Riley

Impeachment

Self-dealing: The core of the impeachment inquiry

Evidence of criminal misconduct, specifically, the federal bribery statute, should influence political judgments about impeachment. After all, “Bribery” is one of the grounds for impeachment specifically enumerated in the Constitution.

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Revelations show Trump at the center of the Ukraine scandal

National Action Network’s Reverend Al Sharpton, Associated Press’ Jonathan Lemire, former Obama White House cabinet secretary Chris Lu, WBUR’s Kimberly Atkins, and former U.S. attorney Joyce Vance react to the week of testimonies on Capitol Hill that shed new light on Trump’s role in the Ukraine saga

Chris Lu

History of Impeachment

Here We Go Again. The air is, once again, heavy with talk of impeachment. It’s happened three times before (if you count Richard Nixon’s resignation). Stewart talks with his buddy Russell Riley from the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, where the talk is almost always about presidents, and, sometimes, about impeaching them.

Russell Riley