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Impeachment Trial Day 1: Six Republicans Join Democrats In Saying It’s Constitutional

By NPR News February 9, 2021

Senate impeachment trial of Donald Trump - Senate floor - February 9, 2021

The second impeachment trial of Donald Trump will move forward after the Senate voted Tuesday that the trial of a former president is constitutional. Trump was impeached by the House for inciting an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. The Senate Tuesday vote was 56-44, with six Republicans joining all 50 Democrats.Read More

Trump’s 2nd Impeachment Trial Starts With Debate On Constitutionality

By NPR News February 9, 2021

Lead impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., is expected to argue that the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump is constitutional, even if Trump is no longer in office. CREDIT: Senate Television via/AP

The Senate trial of former President Donald Trump for one article of impeachment — incitement of the insurrection at the Capitol on Jan. 6 — starts Tuesday with a debate over whether the Constitution allows for prosecution of a president once he leaves office. The debate comes about a year after the Senate acquitted then-President Trump on two counts of abuse of power and Read More

House Passes 25th Amendment Resolution As Pence Says He Won’t Back It. Impeachment Vote Looms

By NPR News January 12, 2021

U.S. House vote for the 25th Amendment resolution was 223 in favor, 205 opposed

The House of Representatives is expected to vote Tuesday evening on a resolution calling for Vice President Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment against President Trump, days after violent insurrectionists breached the U.S. Capitol.Read More

Supreme Court Weighs Whether All Non-Unanimous Jury Verdicts Are Unconstitutional

By NPR News December 2, 2020

U.S. Supreme Court building

In April the justices said future split verdicts in criminal trials are unconstitutional. Now the question is what about such verdicts in the past — potentially several thousand of them.Read More

FACT CHECK: President Trump Doesn’t Have The Authority To Order States To ‘Reopen’

By NPR News April 14, 2020

"When somebody's the president of the United States, the authority is total," President Trump said on Monday. Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images

The president claimed "total" authority, per unnamed constitutional provisions. Experts remind him he is not a king, and cite Articles I, II, III; the 10th Amendment; and the Founding Fathers.Read More

Virginia Ratifies The Equal Rights Amendment, Decades After The Deadline

By NPR News January 15, 2020

Both houses of Virginia's legislature voted to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, but the ERA's future is uncertain: Its original deadline elapsed decades ago. Here, an ERA supporter reacts to a Virginia Senate committee's vote to advance the ERA amendment last week. CREDIT: Steve Helber/AP

The ERA's provisions include a guarantee that "equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged ... on account of sex." But its legal status is uncertain.Read More

Staging A Debate Over ‘What The Constitution Means To Me’

By NPR News March 31, 2019

Heidi Schreck's What the Constitution Means to Me opens on Broadway on Sunday. Joan Marcus/Matt Ross Public Relations

The play is a personal memoir and a civics town hall. It recreates the debate contests Heidi Schreck attended in high school and explores how the Constitution hasn't protected all Americans equally.Read More

Judge Says Democratic Lawmakers Can Sue President Trump On Emoluments

By NPR News September 29, 2018

Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn. (right) and Elizabeth Wydra, congressional Democrats' attorney in a case accusing President Trump of violating the Constitution's Foreign Emoluments Clause, speak to reporters in June.

About 200 Democrats contend Trump's Washington, D.C., hotel is violating the Constitution's Foreign Emoluments Clause. Now a federal judge will let them make the argument in court. Read More

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