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Laurence Tribe

The Harvard law professor on his new book To End a Presidency, Trump’s pardon power and the trouble with impeachment

You write that sometimes discussion of impeachment is reasonable, but most of the time it’s “needless and harmful.” Where does discussion of impeaching President Trump fall in that divide today? I think it’s certainly reasonable to be thinking about it. What I think is unreasonable is expecting it to serve the purpose of a magic wand. It

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