Trump is a clear and present danger to constitutional government

Adam Schiff's case against the president was airtight

President Trump.
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After all the hue and cry of the past three years, President Trump has been impeached and is finally on trial in the Senate. It now falls to a vote whether or not he will be removed from office — requiring a two-thirds margin to remove him from office.

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif), the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and a former prosecutor, is the leader of the House impeachment managers. Following in the footsteps of Rep. Ben Butler (R-Mass.) from way back in 1868, Schiff presented the case for impeachment on the second day of proceedings in a speech lasting two and a half hours.

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Ryan Cooper

Ryan Cooper is a national correspondent at TheWeek.com. His work has appeared in the Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and the Washington Post.