Cass R. Sunstein, Columnist

What If Trump Actually Believed That Biden Was Corrupt?

Should impeachment depend on the president’s state of mind? It’s not a black-and-white question.

November 14, 2019 at 9:33 PM UTC

Cass R. Sunstein is a former Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He is the author of “The Cost-Benefit Revolution” and a co-author of “Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness.”

What was he thinking?
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For all the rhetoric and theatrics, the first day of public impeachment hearings in the House of Representatives on Wednesday produced a surprising amount of light.

Let’s put partisanship to one side and try to find that light, isolating the relevant issues of law and fact, and bracketing the question of whether Donald Trump is a terrific president or a terrible one.