An incisive legal argument that the attempt to impeach then-President Bill Clinton was not only ethically troubling, but actually against the basic legal procedures of the House and Senate and thus unconstitutional. A wake-up call, relevant even today, of the lengths to which the American right will go in order to bring down their rivals, even under the scrutinizing eyes of the world.
BRUCE ACKERMAN is Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University. A member of the American Law Institute and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is the author of many books on the Constitution, including the popular 1998 title We the People, as well as the Open Media Pamphlet The Case Against Lameduck Impeachment. Ackerman lives in New Haven, CT.
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