Jonathan Bernstein, Columnist

Senate Republicans Are Ignoring Options Short of Removing Trump

Lamar Alexander hopes the president “would think twice before he did it again.” But Republican senators can do a lot more than simply hope.

February 3, 2020 at 12:30 PM UTC

By Jonathan Bernstein

Jonathan Bernstein is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering politics. A former professor of political science at the University of Texas at San Antonio, he wrote A Plain Blog About Politics.

Congressional reins aren’t getting much use.
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Some Senate Republicans, either looking for a middle ground or perhaps troubled by what President Donald Trump will do after his impeachment trial ends, are coalescing around an interesting idea. As Tennessee’s Lamar Alexander said Sunday, “I would think he would think twice before he did it again.”