Jonathan Bernstein, Columnist

The Wrong Way to Impeach Trump

The Senate can air the evidence against the former president while still conducting its other business.

February 2, 2021 at 12:30 PM UTC

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.

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The Senate has three choices for how to organize the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump. Two of them make sense.