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The 60-day deadline expires on Friday. The War Powers Resolution of 1973, a law mandating that a president must withdraw from a conflict 60 days after notifying Congress that American forces are fighting.

Daniel Lazare argues that the Supreme Court's decision in Trump v. United States (2024) follows the logic of an increasingly undemocratic Constitution

While our framers perhaps may not have envisioned someone like me, in this seat, they absolutely did envision the necessity and value of the impeachment action upon which I seek to advance today.

Ocasio-Cortez’s articles of impeachment against the rogue justices probably won’t remove them. But history suggests it might help tame the court in other ways.

The last time such serious allegations were made against a sitting justice, Congress responded firmly, in bipartisan fashion. Justice Abe Fortas’s 1969 departure from the court is a blueprint for how lawmakers could respond and how far we have fallen

What is going to stop ex-President Trump from returning to the White House is voters refusing to vote for him. Indictments and prosecutions can play a role in that inasmuch as they are the society communicating to itself what is okay and what is not. They can play a role in shaping public opinion but they are no replacement for an election.

This legislative assault on Philadelphia DA Krasner is part of a pattern by conservatives nationwide to stymie and/or remove the new generation of prosecutors dedicated to reforming the criminal justice system, a system historically steeped in race and class biases.

While the DOJ has not announced whether it will appeal, a spokesperson for the watchdog behind the case said that "the American people deserve to know what it says. Now they will."

New polling shows 61% of Americans support a congressional investigation into the Supreme Court justice's potential conflicts of interest.

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