Asha Rangappa

Precisely because there is so little time left in his term, impeachment is the only thing that can achieve what our criminal laws cannot.

To understand why Manafort’s silence was so critical for Trump, it is helpful to remember Manafort’s background and activities during his short-lived role in the Trump campaign.

The special counsel regulations don’t contemplate investigating a potentially corrupt AG—because a corrupt AG would never invoke the regulations to investigate himself.

A New York judge just allowed a 2018 lawsuit to proceed. The big Trump fear: the discovery process. Because that’s when the public discovers stuff.

Whatever Obamagate is, Barr can’t probe it by his own standards, which hold that a president is the law and can do practically anything.