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Historian and journalist. Ideas Editor @TheAtlantic.
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Scott Nover
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4월 19일 |
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As @YAppelbaum puts it in @TheAtlantic, it's important to remember that "impeachment is a process, not an outcome." It's an important point as the impeachment debate inevitably sweeps through the Democratic primary field. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi… twitter.com/ewarren/status…
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Yoni Appelbaum
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4월 19일 |
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The House approves an impeachment inquiry on October 8. House Judiciary reconvenes after the GOP loses ground in the election, and hears from some expert panels. But instead of calling their own direct witnesses, they rely entirely on Starr’s testimony and his report.
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Yoni Appelbaum
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4월 19일 |
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8. I don’t think the scattershot approach of separate committee hearings serves the same role, and I think past presidential scandals bear that out. But Ezra’s points are serious and well-argued, and deserve to be considered. My own case is here:
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Yoni Appelbaum
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4월 19일 |
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7. Hearings provide a way for Congress to sort conspiracy theories from red herrings from substantive charges; to focus public attention on what *it* thinks matters most; to ask not just whether crimes were committed, but whether a president is fit for office.
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Yoni Appelbaum
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4월 19일 |
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6. That process matters. Ezra argues, fairly, that “the public does not lack for opportunities to examine the evidence for and against Trump.” But it’s also true that one scandal eclipses the next, only to be pushed aside by some new tweet or provocation.
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Yoni Appelbaum
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4월 19일 |
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5. That this largely backfired on the GOP was both predictable and predicted; it short-circuited the process, failing to build the sustained public case for what it was doing, or to examine the evidence and weigh testimony itself.
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Yoni Appelbaum
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4월 19일 |
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4. Instead of embarking on the sort of independent fact-finding process I’ve called for—staff interviews, evidence, public hearings—a lame-duck Congress heard from a single witness, Ken Starr, and then voted articles to the floor based on his report.
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Yoni Appelbaum
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4월 19일 |
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3. You’ll hear this a lot. It shapes the thinking of House leadership, which was in Congress in 1998. There are lots of reasons, though, why 1998 is the least useful precedent here. The biggest is this: The House didn’t hold hearings!
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Yoni Appelbaum
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4월 19일 |
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2. I want to focus on a couple passages, though, like this one: "As happened to Republicans in 1998, impeachment proceedings will shift the focus from the president’s misdeeds, which are grave, to the question of whether he should be ripped from office."
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Yoni Appelbaum
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4월 19일 |
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1. This is a thoughtful response to my writing on impeachment from @ezraklein, and before you read the rest of this thread, take a moment and read it: vox.com/policy-and-pol…
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John McWhorter
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4월 19일 |
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I’ve read every issue of the Atlantic since 1991, and am happy to have made the print edition for the first time. Even if it’s only this once, I was in there! This is on the kiddish element in playful speech lately. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
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Yoni Appelbaum
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4월 19일 |
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My favorite detail here: Early American Jews, without access to kosher wine, drank everything from hard cider to clear Jamaican rum. (Imagining a seder sped along by four cups of unadulterated rum.) theatlantic.com/health/archive…
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Yoni Appelbaum
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4월 19일 |
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How the Concord grape—a thoroughly American fruit—became the taste of tradition for Jews every Passover: theatlantic.com/health/archive…
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Yoni Appelbaum
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4월 19일 |
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I read every @edyong209 tweet as a metaphor. The shark here is... twitter.com/edyong209/stat…
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Garrett M. Graff
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4월 19일 |
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This is a very good piece: twitter.com/yappelbaum/sta…
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David A. Graham
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4월 19일 |
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Aides to Trump: "I don’t have to listen to you—you’re just the president." theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
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Yoni Appelbaum
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4월 19일 |
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Interesting to look at front pages this morning, as they try to summarize 448 pages. The LA Times is the best I’ve seen so far: twitter.com/ChrisMegerian/…
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Jeffrey Goldberg
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4월 19일 |
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.@IsaacDovere with the big scoop: Joe Biden is running for president, and will formally announce next week (via @theatlantic):
theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
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Adrienne LaFrance
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4월 19일 |
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Scoop from @IsaacDovere: Joe Biden’s announcing his candidacy next week. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
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Yoni Appelbaum
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4월 19일 |
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Here’s a preliminary answer (theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…). The bottom line is that Mueller just confirmed what I argued then—the question of presidential misconduct properly belongs before Congress, and it can’t outsource it to federal prosecutors.
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