"Well, when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal." — Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994) As public hearings on impeachment begin this week, we will see the case for and the case against impeaching President Donald Trump. [...]

Peggy Noonan, who wrote brilliant speeches for Ronald Reagan and now writes gifted columns for The Wall Street Journal, and whose friendship I have enjoyed for many years, recently put forth a hypothetical historical analogy that stopped me in my tra [...]

Things are seldom what they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream... —Gilbert and Sullivan, "HMS Pinafore" Last week found Republicans in Congress complaining loud and long that the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, alo [...]

In nearly three years in office, President Donald Trump has spent federal dollars not authorized by Congress, separated families and incarcerated children at the Texas/Mexico border in defiance of a federal court order, pulled 1,000 American troops o [...]

Last week, the White House legal counsel wrote to congressional leaders stating President Donald Trump's legal views of the impeachment investigation now being conducted by the House of Representatives. The essence of Pat Cipollone's letter a [...]