What you need to know about impeachment: Weekend Edition

Follow Us Trump Isn't Impeached Until the House Tells the Senate — Noah Feldman Now that the House of Representatives has voted to impeach President Donald Trump, what is the constitutional status of the two articles of impeachment? Must they be transmitted to the Senate to trigger a trial, or could they be held back by the House until the Senate decides what the trial will look like, as Speaker Nancy Pelosi has hinted? The Constitution doesn't say how fast the articles must go to the Senate. Some modest delay is not inconsistent with the Constitution, or how both chambers usually work. But an indefinite delay would pose a serious problem. Impeachment as contemplated by the Constitution does not consist merely of the vote by the House, but of the process of sending the articles to the Senate for trial. Both parts are necessary to make an impeachment under the Constitution: The House must actually send the articles and send managers to the Senate to prosecute the impeachment. And the Senate must actually hold a trial. Read the whole thing. Trump's Impeachment Letter Gets Constitution Wildly Wrong — Noah Feldman Why Is John Bolton Staying Silent? — Jonathan Bernstein Why Didn't Republicans Try Harder to Defend Trump? — Jonathan Bernstein Boris Johnson Has a Bank of England Problem — Ferdinando Giugliano Giuliani Hints at New Defense: So What If Trump Did It? — Noah Feldman We Kept Almost Making Money — Matt Levine Trump Undermines His Own Impeachment Defense (Again) — Jonathan Bernstein Book Recommendations to Turn the Page From 2019 to 2020 — Opinion writers Bankers Are Playing With Fire, Once Again — Elisa Martinuzzi Saturday New Movies This weekend's theatrical releases include one of the year's most hotly debated ("Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker") and one of its most critically reviled ("Cats"). But if all you need is a pre-holiday escape, who are we to judge? This is the Weekend Edition of Bloomberg Opinion Today, a roundup of the 10 most popular stories Bloomberg Opinion published this week, based on web readership, plus some other stuff sometimes thrown in.   Before it's here, it's on the Bloomberg Terminal. Find out more about how the Terminal delivers information and analysis that financial professionals can't find anywhere else. Learn more.   You received this message because you are subscribed to Bloomberg's Bloomberg Opinion Today newsletter. Unsubscribe | Bloomberg.com | Contact Us Bloomberg L.P. 731 Lexington, New York, NY, 10022