La juramentación de los presidentes estadounidenses ha evolucionado un poco desde los días de George Washington.
Timothy McVeigh’s 1995 attack in Oklahoma City spurred legislation that gutted death row inmates’ rights. In the wake of the siege of the Capitol, will we make a similar mistake?
A Stanford professor, she pushed the legal profession to confront the ways it failed clients and to be more inclusive of women.
A reader says publishers aren’t bound by free-speech protections. Also: Remote work; evictions in the pandemic; landlords in a bind.
The inauguration has evolved a bit from George Washington’s day.
In its last six months, the Trump administration put more than three times as many prisoners to death as the federal government had in the previous six decades.
The acting defense secretary ordered the spy agency to appoint Michael Ellis, who has been accused of having a hand in one of the Trump administration’s most contentious legal decisions.
The president’s allies have collected tens of thousands of dollars — and potentially much more — from people seeking pardons.
The first female chief justice of her state’s Supreme Court, she was on the short list for the U.S. Supreme Court seat that went to Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Here’s what we need to do if we want more Mitt Romneys and fewer Josh Hawleys.
Finally the world agrees that Trump is exactly the man his fiercest critics said he was. But has the reckoning come too late?
White House officials are universally angry with Rudolph W. Giuliani and blame him for both of President Trump’s impeachments. But he remains one of few people still willing to join Mr. Trump in the foxhole.
He is the poster child for why such accountability is not just constitutionally permissible but necessary.
The House was right to impeach the president, but the legal definition of incitement shouldn’t give way in the process.
One of the country’s premier “toxic tort” lawyers is accused of misappropriating money from families of victims of the Lion Air crash that led to the grounding of Boeing’s 737 Max. And that’s just the beginning.
La Cámara de Representantes está debatiendo y votará para destituir al presidente Trump. A continuación, te contamos cómo verlo.
There’s no real reason for the Senate not to try him immediately.
The House will hold a vote on Wednesday to impeach President Trump. Here’s how to follow along.
The House of Representatives voted, 223 to 205, on Tuesday night to call on Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment to strip President Trump of his powers for inciting a mob to attack the Capitol.
The House formally called on Vice President Mike Pence to move to wrest power from the president, as Republican support built for impeaching him of inciting violence against the nation.
In a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Vice President Mike Pence rejected the possibility of stripping President Trump of his powers through the 25th Amendment.
Mientras la Cámara de Representantes de Estados Unidos se prepara para presentar una resolución de destitución contra el presidente, expertos legales opinan sobre los riesgos jurídicos de las acciones que realizó antes del asalto al Capitolio.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff told the United States’ armed forces to defend the Constitution and reject extremism in a memo that condemned last week’s violence.
Three justices discussed the singer in a case over whether two students could sue their college for violating their First Amendment rights.
Representative Jamie Raskin, Democrat of Maryland, lost his 25-year-old son to suicide on New Year’s Eve. Then he survived the mob attack on the Capitol. Now, he leads the impeachment effort.
House Democrats have introduced an article against President Trump for “inciting violence against the government of the United States.” What happens next?
Congress can invoke its constitutional power to bar the president from holding office again.
In “The Crooked Path to Abolition,” James Oakes shows how Abraham Lincoln relied on America’s founding texts to chart a path to abolition.
Democrats are planning a Tuesday vote to formally call on the vice president to wrest power from President Trump and a Wednesday impeachment vote if he does not.
Tech giants were right to ban the president. We still need to break them up.
House Democrats introduced an article of impeachment charging President Trump over the riot at the Capitol.
The president’s actions just before his supporters’ deadly rampage at the Capitol has created new risks for him.
The president’s actions just before his supporters’ deadly rampage at the Capitol has created new risks for him.
“Those who say that impeachment will further divide us, or that impeachment must be delayed to facilitate President-elect Joe Biden’s agenda, are wrong,” one writer says. Others favor use of the 25th Amendment, pardons or a federal inquiry.
One of the authors of the impeachment article against President Trump makes his case.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the House would formally call on Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment to strip President Trump of power, and move to impeach the president if he refused.
Trump’s incitement of a riot is a violation of the separation of powers that threatens the foundation of the Republic.
An ending as terrible as it was predictable engulfs the president and the country.
Let’s talk about options to remove him, and to change norms.
There are reasons to question the wisdom of recent actions by Twitter in barring President Trump from its site and Simon & Schuster in canceling the publication of Senator Josh Hawley’s book. But the First Amendment is on their side.
Many residents of Murdock, Minn., said they were horrified that an organization condemned by watchdogs as a white supremacist hate group would open a church. City leaders said they had little choice but to grant a permit.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi threatened decisive action against the president for his role in the insurrection against Congress if he refused to resign.
But short of the cabinet invoking the 25th Amendment or impeaching and convicting the president, it would be unconstitutional to defy legal orders from the commander in chief, experts note.
El asalto al Capitolio de Estados Unidos ha provocado un nuevo impulso de los demócratas para someter por segunda vez a juicio político al presidente Trump, quien ha incitado la insurrección. Pero quedan menos de dos semanas de su mandato.
Readers react to impeachment calls, cabinet resignations and a video from the president.
The storming of the Capitol has prompted a fresh drive by Democrats to impeach President Trump, who egged on the insurrection, for a second time. But there are less than two weeks left in his term.
Despojar al presidente de Estados Unidos de sus poderes a través de este mecanismo es un proceso sumamente complejo. Esto es lo que debes saber.
The White House was propelled deeper into crisis as officials resigned in protest and prominent Republicans broke with the president after he incited a mob that assaulted Congress.
The White House was propelled deeper into crisis as officials resigned in protest and prominent Republicans broke with the president after he incited a mob that assaulted Congress.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the House could be ready to impeach President Trump again within days if the vice president did not invoke the 25th Amendment to strip his powers.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the House could be ready to impeach President Trump again within days if the vice president did not invoke the 25th Amendment to strip his powers.
Either the beginning of the end for Trump, or America.
The anti-democratic forces on display at the Capitol on Wednesday will not abate on their own.
The magnitude of the current crisis calls for two constitutional measures: the 25th Amendment and impeachment.
As Congress prepared to certify the victory of his successor, President Trump railed against the election and helped set in motion hours of violence.
As Congress prepared to certify the victory of his successor, President Trump railed against the election and helped set in motion hours of violence.
Esta vez fallaron, pero su deslealtad al país, la Constitución y sus valores es evidente.
He was a premier election and campaign lawyer and a fixture in Chicago legal circles. He died of Covid-19.
A debate has broken out over whether the once-sacrosanct constitutional protection of the First Amendment has become a threat to democracy.
The 1887 Electoral Count Act is a clear and present danger to democracy.
The law firm, Foley & Lardner, had distanced itself from Cleta Mitchell after a recording of the call revealed she helped the president pressure Georgia elections officials.
This time they’ll fail. But their disloyalty to America is clear.
The law firm, Foley & Lardner, had distanced itself from Cleta Mitchell after a recording of the call revealed she helped the president pressure Georgia elections officials.
The challenges will transform the normally routine electoral count by Congress into an hourslong spectacle that has already divided Republicans, who are all but certain to fail to change the results.
The vice president will preside on Wednesday when Congress convenes to ratify Joe Biden’s victory. President Trump still seems to hold out hope that his loyal No. 2 could change the outcome.
Cleta Mitchell had been quietly helping President Trump’s attempt to subvert the election results when the recording of him pressuring Georgia elections officials was revealed.
And this time, he should be convicted. The country cannot risk his becoming president again.
Deceptive interrogations and false confessions are all too common. New York can stop them.
Oregon earmarked $62 million to explicitly benefit Black individuals and business owners. Now some of the money is in limbo after lawsuits alleging racial discrimination.
In a career as a journalist, I had never encountered a politician like him.
A tour of the major trends, from Covid-19 spread to political polarization, that affected Americans this year.
The defamation lawyer L. Lin Wood has transformed into a fierce advocate for President Trump whose error-riddled lawsuits have promoted falsehoods about election fraud.
On Jan. 6, the vice president will preside as Congress counts the Electoral College’s votes. Let’s hope that he doesn’t do the unthinkable — and unconstitutional.
On Jan. 6, the vice president will preside as Congress counts the Electoral College’s votes. Let’s hope that he doesn’t do the unthinkable — and unconstitutional.
As a lawyer he used computerized statistical analyses when negotiating chief executives’ exit packages, to demonstrate why they deserved a gilded send-off.
La ayuda en cada localidad de Estados Unidos varía. Pero aquí te presentamos cómo conseguir ayuda o ayudarte a ti mismo.
Readers, reacting to an Op-Ed by a former Justice Department lawyer about her ethical conflicts, offer both censure and sympathy.
A Pennsylvania school district has asked the Supreme Court to rule on whether students may be disciplined for what they say on social media.
Before he defended Rosa Parks and became a leading legal force, Fred Gray grew up on an avenue named for Jefferson Davis in Montgomery, Ala. Now a push is underway for a new name for the street: Mr. Gray’s.
Whether they broke down the news or broke up the day, The Times’s live discussions, demonstrations and performances this year offered audiences something rare: a sense of connection.
American politics will be shaped by the influence of the monarch of Mar-a-Lago.
American politics will be shaped by the influence of the monarch of Mar-a-Lago.
A quirk of legal timing had left Audrey Strauss’s tenure as acting head of the Southern District of New York set to expire just before the end of the Trump administration.
Readers respond to an Op-Ed essay about the important role of “civic virtue.”
No matter our intentions, lawyers like me were complicit. We owe the country our honesty about what we saw — and should do in the future.
Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation has tilted the high court's ideological balance. What should the court’s future be, and who gets to decide it?
Abortion access would decline in large regions of the country, a new data analysis shows.