The Case Against Lame Duck Impeachment

An incisive legal argument that the attempt to impeach then-President Bill Clinton was not only ethically troubling, but actually against the basic legal procedures of the House and Senate and thus unconstitutional. A wake-up call, relevant even today, of the lengths to which the American right will go in order to bring down their rivals, even under the scrutinizing eyes of the world.BRUCE ACKERMAN is one of America's leading political philosophers and constitutional lawyers.