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Overlegalizing Impeachment and the Twenty-Fifth Amendment

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Overlegalizing Impeachment and the Twenty-Fifth Amendment

Mark Graber and Sanford Levinson

January 13, 2021 09:00:04 am

The monopolistic control lawyers and the Supreme Court assert over constitutional meaning is threatening to pervert and sidetrack congressional efforts to free Americans of a president who, even in his last ten days of office, terrifies millions of citizens across the political spectrum. The Constitution offers at least two paths by which “we the people” [...]

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