Cass Sunstein on the Citizen's Guide to Impeachment

Cass Sunstein on the Citizen's Guide to Impeachment

Discussion on impeachment has intensified since Donald Trump assumed office this January, but what do we know about impeachment’s constitutional design and history? Cass Sunstein, professor at Harvard Law School, recently wrote an accessible account of impeachment to separate myth from history. Last week, Benjamin Wittes interviewed Sunstein on his new book "Impeachment: A Citizen's Guide." They discussed the Framers’ intent behind impeachment, what “high crimes and misdemeanors” actually means, the appropriate situations for which impeachment is called, and much more.

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Lawfare Archive: How to Steal a Presidential Election

Lawfare Archive: How to Steal a Presidential Election

From March 4, 2024: As the 2024 presidential election approaches, a vital question is whether the legal architecture governing the election is well crafted to prevent corruption and abuse. In their ne...

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Lawfare Daily: The Privacy Law That's Supposed To Be Protecting Us Online Turns 40

Lawfare Daily: The Privacy Law That's Supposed To Be Protecting Us Online Turns 40

The Electronic Communications Privacy Act, which is designed to protect users' privacy—including privacy online—turned 40 this year. On March 6, Lawfare hosted an event at Georgetown Law marking the e...

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This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Senior Editors Anna Bower, Kevin Frazier, and Kate Klonick to talk through the week’s big news in national security, including:“The X Post Facto R...

2 Apr 1h 8min

Lawfare Daily: Beyond the Headlines: A History of U.S.-Iran Relations

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In this episode, Ariane Tabatabai sits down with historian, John Ghazvinian, the author of, “America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present,” to discuss U.S.-Iran relations. They take a step back fr...

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Lawfare Daily: Joel Braunold on West Bank Violence and Israel’s New Lebanon Offensive

Lawfare Daily: Joel Braunold on West Bank Violence and Israel’s New Lebanon Offensive

For today’s episode, Lawfare Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson sits down with Joel Braunold, the Managing Director of the Center Project, for the latest in their regular series on recent developments in...

1 Apr 49min

Lawfare Daily: What’s Influencing Politics Online? X’s Algorithm, Creators, and the New Persuasion Machine

Lawfare Daily: What’s Influencing Politics Online? X’s Algorithm, Creators, and the New Persuasion Machine

In this episode, Lawfare Contributing Editor Renée DiResta speaks with Nathaniel Lubin, co-author of “How Social Media Creators Shape Mass Politics,” and Philine Widmer, co-author of a recent Nature p...

31 Mar 47min

Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, March 27

Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, March 27

In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Molly Roberts, Anna Bower, and Roger Parloff, discuss a judge granting a preliminary inj...

30 Mar 1h 33min

Lawfare Archive: Tom Kent on the Dismantling of American Government Broadcasting

Lawfare Archive: Tom Kent on the Dismantling of American Government Broadcasting

From March 25, 2025: Tom Kent ran Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and is a longtime Russia watcher. He talks to Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes about President Trump’s executive order dismantl...

29 Mar 41min

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