As Donald Trump's impeachment trial approaches its inevitable climax, it's worth a look at where this process came from and how it fits in with the United States constitution.
Category: Constitutional law
Putin’s plan
Authoritarianism typically creates problems for its practitioners. Vladimir Putin's plan for constitutional revision represents an attempt to solve some of them.
More thoughts about judicial review
The decision about prorogation is not the only controversy Britain's supreme court has engaged in recently. An attempt to rein in the intelligence services raised some similar issues.
Let’s talk about impeachment
The Democrats have set out on the road towards impeaching Donald Trump. There are echoes of Watergate, but the Republican Party has changed a lot in 45 years.
Brexit: the judges take a hand
Boris Johnson loses big at the supreme court. It's a radical decision, but one with a solid grounding in the peculiarities of British constitutional law.
The Senate faces its enemies, again
Plans are again afoot within the Australian government to try to cripple the democratic nature of the Senate. But there is an alternative direction that reform could take.
On changing a constitution
Australia's constitution is difficult to amend, and that's not a bad thing. But resistance to change is far from uniform.
Oh no, not 1975 again!
Britain could be headed for a constitutional crisis that can be likened to that of 1975 in Australia. But the differences are more revealing than the similarities.
Brexit revisits the civil war
Like its Italian counterpart, the British parliament faces big decisions about whether to bring down a government and what to put in its place, but it does so under somewhat different constitutional rules.
Parliament vs executive in Italy
The Italian far right is making its bid for power, and it will take an unlikely degree of unity among its opponents to stop it.
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