December 2019

AN ARGUMENT FOR IMPEACHMENT AND REMOVAL

Making good arguments, Trump / By

            Despite efforts to complicate things, the issue of whether President Trump should be impeached and removed from office boils down to the answers to four straightforward questions.  These four questions frame an argument for impeachment and removal. It starts with what are hopefully agreed principles, and proceeds based on facts and logic to a …

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Applying BZL 1-5 to Bad Arguments: Impeachment Edition

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The debate in the House of Representatives over the articles of impeachment was disappointing.   Democrats and Republicans mostly talked past each other, and each side made a lot of bad arguments.  Here are some of the bad arguments that recurred often. BZL 1. The facts are uncontested.  Democrats kept saying the facts were uncontested, when …

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