Article II, Sec. 4 of the U.S. Constitution states that a president, vice president or any other civil officer can be removed from office if he or she has committed “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.”...more
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One of the precursors of the Democratic wave that swept the House of Representatives in 2018 was the near-record number of House Republicans who retired rather than seeking re-election. As the 2020 cycle accelerates, we’re...more
Health care—what to do next, and how to do it—is likely to be a flash point in the first debates of the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination process. All the Democratic candidates support universal coverage, but they...more
As the Democratic presidential field takes shape, one of the questions we at Brownstein get most frequently is, “What the heck is X-candidate thinking? He has no shot, right?”...more
With a new Congress comes new oversight priorities. Private companies could find themselves under the legislative microscope after Democrats seized control of the House for the first time since the 2006 midterm elections.
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Yesterday, Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) introduced the bipartisan Strengthening the Tenth Amendment Through Entrusting States Act (STATES Act) in an attempt to address the incongruity between...more