Maine’s junior senator decries not just a newly emboldened president, but a forever-weakened Congress.
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After impeachment fight, political battle shifts to effect on Senate campaigns
Democrats are targeting GOP senators in Maine, Arizona and North Carolina who voted to acquit Trump. Republicans are emerging from the trial with their own level of confidence.
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Two days after acquittal, Trump ousts officials who testified at impeachment hearings
Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman and his twin brother are reassigned to the Army, and EU Ambassador Gordon Sondland is fired.
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Pelosi laces into Trump, defends tearing up copy of his speech
The House speaker reserves her sharpest remarks for the president’s State of the Union performance, which at times resembled a campaign rally.
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Our View: Collins, Republicans vote to enable Trump
But Maine Sen. Angus King rightly argued that removal was needed to prevent future bad acts.
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Romney knew a storm was coming over his impeachment vote
How long it lasts will be up to President Trump, whose allies hope he won’t obsess over the lone Republican defection.
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See the Senate vote breakdown on impeachment charges
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Pelosi ‘felt very liberated’ tearing up Trump speech
Furious Republicans condemn the House speaker’s action, and the president’s re-election campaign seeks to capitalize on it.
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Sen. Collins votes to acquit, Sen. King to convict as Senate clears Trump of impeachment charges
While Susan Collins didn’t expand on comments she had made in announcing her vote, Angus King again faulted the president and expressed concern that the Senate’s ‘inaction’ seriously harms the Constitution’s system of checks and balances.
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Trump found not guilty on both impeachment charges
The president is accused of pressuring Ukraine to investigate Democratic rival Joe Biden, in what House Democrats said was a quid pro quo for personal political gain and in actions that many Republicans freely acknowledged.