The house of representatives released today a resolution "Impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United States". The full resolution can be found here. Congress settled on two articles of impeachment; Abuse of Power and Obstruction of Congress. The former, stems 100% from the request by Trump, asking the Ukrainian government "for a favor". Most of the hearings regarding impeachment, both in the intelligence committee and the judiciary committee, revolved around this impeachable offence. The second article of impeachment is about Trump's direction to members, officials and offices...

Day 1 of the impeachment hearings took place today. Much like the hearings in the house intelligence committee, the hearings were split between both parties. There were 4 witnesses, all law scholars. 3 seem to be clear supporters of impeachment; Noah Feldman, Pamela Karlan and Micheal Gerhardt. The fourth law scholar was Jonathan Turley. The support was stark, the three were there for the democrats and the fourth was there for the republicans. So much so, that when it came time to question them, the democrats asked broad...

The house intelligence committee released its impeachment inquiry report today. The full report is here. The report's conclusions is what you would have expected if you followed and watched the inquiry. The report is broken down into two sections. Section 1 speaks to Trump's misconduct and section 2 speaks to his obstruction of the inquiry. The summarized conclusion of section 1 is: As described in this executive summary and the report that follows, President Trump’s scheme subverted U.S. foreign policy toward Ukraine and undermined our national security in...

The founding fathers of the United States are often considered geniuses, and they were. There is only one constitution in the world that guarantees its citizens the pursuit of happiness, never mind the right to bear arms, protection against illegal seizes and seizures, or the fact that all men are created equal (well, sort of). Like Einstein, standing on the shoulders of giants so that he could see beyond our 20th-century understanding of the Universe, so too were our founding fathers standing on the shoulders of other experiments...

There is absolutely no way that after the testimony by Dr. Hill and Mr. Holmes Trump will not be impeached. If Ambassador Sondland massacred Trump's alibi and call for innocence yesterday, Dr. Hill and Mr. Holmes came back to finish the job. Their testimony was so compelling and corroborated the whistle-blower's account so clearly, that during questioning by Trump's defenders, most chose to use their time to make statements rather than ask questions. The latter proposition proved too dangerous as Texas representative John Ratcliffe found out when he...

Yesterday I talked about how Trump's defenders had done a reasonably good job on day 3 of the impeachment hearings. Day 4 was not so kind, in fact, it has horrible. Sondland, one of the key figures in this whole inquiry and the ambassador to the EU, testified that he had a clear understanding from the President that a quid pro quo was on the line if the Ukrainian President was hoping to get a meeting in Washington. This is the very notion Trump and his defenders have...

I have been watching the impeachment procedures through the eyes of Trump defenders. I know the democrats want to impeach Trump. There is very little I can learn by listening or watching their questioning. Instead, I have been purposely fast-forwarding to the points in the hearings where Trump's defenders question the witnesses. I want to see if I'm missing something. Perhaps, like Devin Nunez claims, this is all a hoax. On a separate note, Nunez cannot, even if he tried, make himself more into a caricature of a...

The second day of the public impeachment hearings happened on Friday and as you can expect, it was much of the same show. The democrats talked positively about the former ambassador, Marie Yovanovitch, and questioned her on basic points around Trump's motives behind her firing. While the republicans focused mainly on whether or not the chairman of the committee, Adam Schiff, would have the whistle-blower testify in public. The rational of the people defending Trump is that without the whistle-blower, we would have never found out about any...

I watched the entire impeachment procedure from the first day of public hearings and what the diplomats described, Bill Taylor and George Kent, is the very definition of what Trump has claimed it was not, a quid pro quo. The case for a quid pro quo could not be more transparent, as Ambassador Sondland continued to make it a point that it wasn't a quid pro quo even while confirming to Taylor that unless Ukraine's President complied and agreed to begin an investigation into Burisma and the Bidens,...

News broke yesterday, that European Ambassador Gordon Sondland updated his testimony after having his "memory refreshed", and that in fact there was an understanding of quid pro quo. Many think this is the smoking gun that will get Trump thrown out of office. While it will certainly get him impeached, the most important part will probably not happen; getting him thrown out. Already, his supporters in the Senate, the jury that would get him thrown out, have switched the narrative from there was no quid pro quo, to...