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I call myself Mr. Kellyanne Conway.
I don't, frankly, want to be on television.
The electoral calendar is set in stone, by law.
Donald Trump is like a practical joke that got out of hand.
It's simply not bias for a judge to explain her reasoning in a dissent.
I think the Republican Party has become something of a personality cult.
Trump revels in issuing pardons, because that power is essentially absolute.
A President's unofficial or non-presidential actions do not affect millions of people.
Questions about Trump's psychological stability have mounted throughout his presidency.
Just as crises can provide a test of anyone's character, they do so especially with presidents.
The public has no interest in whether the President acts boldly or timidly in his personal affairs.
Dershowitz may be a genius in some ways, but he's not necessarily the advocate you want on your side.
Ever the blameless narcissist, Trump always insists that the buck stops wherever convenient - for him, personally.
It's also not true that 'abuse of power' is not impeachable, or that a statutory crime is necessary for impeachment.
Charged with faithfully executing the laws, the president is, in effect, the nation's highest law enforcement officer.
Trump's attacks against the judiciary reflect his view that only he should be able to decide what he can and cannot do.
Among Donald Trump's many flaws as president is one that's as fundamental as any: He simply doesn't understand his job.
To criticize the attorney general for permitting justice to be done without regard to political party is very disturbing.
The underlying crime in Watergate was a clumsy, third-rate burglary in an election campaign that turned out to be a landslide.
President Trump is treating the judiciary the way he treats the media. But the harm created by these attacks could be far greater.
The Constitution sets out no standards for granting pardons. They require no consent from Congress, and courts can't second-guess them.
Sometimes when you're defending people, you have to admit there was something that's not quite right, and that preserves some credibility.
Trump simply can't dial down the lying, or turn it off - even, his own attorneys suggest, when false statements may be punished as crimes.
Particularly as a supposed 'conservative,' Trump ought to know something about the relationship between the federal government and the states.
Any litigator will tell you that adding to your legal team on the eve of trial most likely will not produce better lawyering but, rather, chaos.
In a case involving his private conduct, a President should be treated like any private citizen. The rule of law requires no more - and no less.
If there's one thing we know about President Trump, it's that he lies and he cheats. Endlessly. And shamelessly. But still, mostly, incompetently.
Trump is not some random, embittered person in a parking lot - he's the president of the United States. By virtue of his office, he speaks for the country.
By vesting in the House the 'sole Power of Impeachment,' the Constitution makes it wholly the House's business how to decide whether to impeach a president.
Trump took a solemn oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. After his years in the job, he ought to know something about that document.
In essence, Trump thinks everything should be about him, for him, for his benefit and glorification - and he can't comprehend, and doesn't care about, anything that isn't.
Instead of channeling Trump, and attacking the courts in ways that are as bad as or worse than the president's, public officials who ought to know better should behave better.
President Trump, whose businesses and now campaign have left a long trail of unpaid bills behind them, has never discriminated when it comes to stiffing people who work for him.
It's about the principles, it's about the rule of law. You don't have to stay silent when you see something that you don't like that is inconsistent of these timeless principles.
America promised equality. Its constitution said so. My schoolbooks said so. The country wasn't perfect, to be sure. But its ideals were. And every day brought us closer to those ideals.
Trump's lying, his self-regard, his self-soothing, his lack of empathy, his narcissistic rage, his contempt for norms, rules, laws, facts and simple truths - have all come home to roost.
That's what it's all about for Trump. It's always about winning - winning for Trump, by making him look good in each day's reality-television production. It's never been about the country.
If anything has cheapened or trivialized the process by which Trump was impeached, it was House Republicans' refusal to treat the proceedings with the seriousness the Constitution demands.
Confronted by a skilled examiner, Trump would melt down in minutes. He'd be humiliated, and he knows it - which is why he's too terrified to give testimony under oath, and why it won't happen.
In civil or criminal litigation in a jury case, the only way for a defendant to avoid a trial is for a judge to rule that there was no evidence from which the jury could find for the other side.
Judges certainly have political connections and strong political views, but that doesn't mean they can't rise above politics when they hear cases. We expect them to, and the law presumes they do.
Americans should expect far more from a president than merely that he not be provably a criminal. They should expect a president to comport himself in accordance with the high duties of his office.
The president's duty to faithfully execute his office includes not only a duty of loyalty to the nation but also a duty of care - a duty to act with reasonable diligence and upon a reasonable basis.
There should be no schools, bridges or statues devoted to Trump. His name should live in infamy, and he should be remembered, if at all, for precisely what he was - not a president, but a blundering cheat.
Of course, Trump will always take credit for positive developments - even those he didn't cause, create or do - like the economy he inherited, an electoral 'landslide' that never happened and the Christmas holiday he didn't need to save.
When Trump lied and claimed credit for 'the greatest economy in the history of our country,' even though it wasn't, and even though he inherited a strong economy, and goosed it up with trillions of dollars in debt, it didn't matter to most people.
For Trump, success always has a single father - himself. Failure has a hundred - everyone and anyone else. The media. The Democrats. The 'deep state.' Disloyal staffers. Prosecutors. Judges. Anyone who doesn't do his bidding or sufficiently sing his praises.
One of the bad things about bad behavior by politicians (particularly by Donald Trump, because he's president, but by others as well) is that it not only can encourage bad behavior by politicians of all ideological stripes but also can be cited to justify it.
As all presidents must, Trump swore an oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution, and to faithfully execute his office and the laws in accordance with the Constitution. That oath requires putting the national interests above his personal interests.
Fiduciaries are people who hold legal obligations of trust, like a trustee of a trust. A trustee must act in the beneficiary's best interests and not his own. If the trustee fails to do that, the trustee can be removed, even if what the trustee has done is not a crime.