Impeachment

This week’s major impeachment story revolved around recent and incredibly broad claims of executive power.

Even former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie expressed outrage at an incredibly over-broad claim by the Trump administration that a President cannot commit obstruction of justice.

This book appears destined to become the current “Gold Standard” for a comprehensive, book-length survey of impeachment.

There were several significant impeachment developments during the week.

Michael Cohen received millions in fees of various types from Trump’s 2017 inauguration forward, including from major corporations such as AT&T, and an entity associated with Viktor Vekselberg, a Russian billionaire.

Giuliani’s many conflicting statements are too numerous to mention at this point.

As always, there's a lot that happened last week to consider.

There wasn’t much impeachment news in the past week bearing directly on the Mueller investigation. However, several developments – in some cases related to that investigation -- were again significant.

Although the latest word from the White House is that President Trump does not plan to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller, or end the investigation, the entire situation is more volatile than ever

Minneapolis 3/12/18 Edition –  News of the past week featured the roll out of President Trump’s new “trade war” initiative – planned tariffs for steel and aluminum – with exemptions for Mexico, Canada and Australia.  The new initiative apparently prompted top Trump economic advisor and free trade advocate Gary Cohen’s resignation.  The Trump White House also