Tag: Presidency
Biden’s Cold War Nostalgia Is Dooming His Presidency
Joe Biden easily lapses into effusive reveries about the past, especially during sentimental public occasions. When Biden retired from the Senate in 2009 to assume the office of vice president, he gave an emotional speech recalling that when he was first sworn into that august body in 1973, “giants loomed over the landscape of the United States Senate.” These supposed giants, including avowed racists like James Eastland and Storm Thurmond, remain imposing landmarks in Biden’s mental world, the orienting pillars … Read more
What SCOTUS Has to Decide About Trump and Disqualification
Here is a look at how the Supreme Court Justices might view the text of Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment, which the Colorado Supreme Court cited in its decision to keep Donald Trump off that state’s Republican primary ballot. The Court will hear oral arguments on February 8th.
What does Section 3 say?
At first glance, it’s easy to understand why Section 3 seems so relevant to the case of Donald Trump. Didn’t he take an oath when he
The Catastrophe of a Second Trump Presidency
December 8, 2023
Should he somehow, despite four criminal indictments and multiple trials, return to the White House, we can’t say we weren’t warned.
Donald Trump at the Republican National Convention on July 21, 2016, in Cleveland, Ohio.
(Dennis Van Tine / STAR MAX via AP Photo)
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On February 19, 1942, two months after
How to navigate Belgium’s EU presidency policy agenda like a pro – POLITICO
This article is part of the Belgian Presidency of the EU special report.
All eyes are on next June’s European election — and it’s up to the Belgians to close out the current five-year mandate.
With the European Union going into full campaign mode ahead of the vote, Belgium has even less time than usual to make the most of its run heading the Council of the EU. With the sun setting on this European Parliament and European Commission,
Trump Is Constitutionally Prohibited From the Presidency
As students of the United States Constitution for many decades—one of us as a U.S. Court of Appeals judge, the other as a professor of constitutional law, and both as constitutional advocates, scholars, and practitioners—we long ago came to the conclusion that the Fourteenth Amendment, the amendment ratified in 1868 that represents our nation’s second founding and a new birth of freedom, contains within it a protection against the dissolution of the republic by a treasonous president.
This protection,
Trump Will Abuse the Presidency to End His Legal Troubles
If, as seems likely, Donald Trump is the Republican presidential nominee next year, the 2024 elections will be a referendum on several crucial issues: the prospect of authoritarianism in America, the continuation of a vibrant democracy, the relationship between the executive branch and the other two branches of government, and much else of grave significance.
It will also be a referendum on whether Trump will ever be held legally accountable for his actions. Trump faces multiple civil suits and at
How to navigate Spain’s EU presidency policy agenda like a pro – POLITICO
Spare a thought for Spanish diplomats in Brussels. They’re going to be working flat-out until Christmas.
Sweden has spent the last six months trying to process a huge pile of legislative files, many of which were proposed late by a European Commission distracted by COVID-19 and Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Despite commendable progress, many of these files still need a lot of work before being passed into law. Look at the files we’ve laid out below, then look back at
A wonk’s guide to the Swedish EU presidency policy agenda – POLITICO
Sweden’s policy smorgasbord is already groaning with some chewy (and even unpalatable) items — but the Commission keeps adding more to its plate.
By this point in a five-year EU election cycle, the vast majority of new policy proposals have already arrived from the EU executive branch, and are already on their legislative journey. But as Sweden takes over the rotating Council presidency with a year-and-a-half left until the next European election, that’s not the case.
With massive official bandwith
The Miracle and Tragedy of Trump’s Presidency
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A wonk’s guide to the Czech EU presidency policy agenda – POLITICO
This article is part of POLITICO’s Guide to the Czech EU Presidency special report.
The Czech presidency needs to carry the EU through an energy crisis, galloping inflation and a war in Ukraine — all on a shoestring budget.
Call it the crisis presidency.
In the midst of a war and a gathering economic crisis, the small Central European country will be tasked with making sure the EU secures a lasting supply of energy while not letting go of its