Bowman on Impeachment

LECTURES

Why Being a Dreadful President Is an Impeachable Offense: A (mostly) dispassionate analysis (American Constitution Society lecture, April 2018)

ARTICLES

Frank O. Bowman, III & Stephen Sepinuck, Background and History of Impeachment, Hearing before the Subcommittee on the Constitution, House Judiciary Committee, 105th Cong., 2d Sess., Nov. 9, 1998, at 342-372 (Written testimony to House Judiciary Committee in Clinton impeachment inquiry on behalf of Nat’l Assoc. of Criminal Defense Attorneys (NACDL)).

Frank O. Bowman, III & Stephen Sepinuck, “High Crimes & Misdemeanors”: Defining the Constitutional Limits on Presidential Impeachment, 72 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LAW REVIEW 1517 (1999), available at http://scholarship.law.missouri.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1074&context=facpubs.

Frank O. Bowman, III, Against Impeachment: An Imagined Argument in the House Judiciary Committee, 22-Dec. THE CHAMPION 49 (Dec. 1998).

Falling Out of Love With America: The Clinton Impeachment and the Madisonian Constitution, 59 MARYLAND L. REV. 5 (2001), available at http://scholarship.law.missouri.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1066&context=facpubs.

He’s Impeachable, You Know, NEW YORK TIMES p. A25 (May 3, 2007) (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/03/opinion/03bowman.html) (discussing possible impeachment of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales).

The Icing Is Iglesias: His Firing Is Reason Alone For Congress To Impeach Gonzales, SLATE (May 17, 2007) (http://www.slate.com/id/2166469/).

Congress Shouldn’t Impeach Judge Jay Bybee: Much as he deserves it, SLATE (April 24, 2009) (http://www.slate.com/id/2216790/).

Not So Fast, Special Counsel: All the Ways Robert Mueller’s Investigation of Donald Trump Might Be Tripped Up Before it Reaches the Finish Line, SLATE (July 18, 2017)(http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2017/07/all_the_many_ways_robert_mueller_s_investigation_into_donald_trump_could.html).

State Attorneys General Won’t Save Us, SLATE (July 25, 2017) (http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2017/07/state_attorneys_general_won_t_save_us_if_trump_fires_robert_mueller.html)

Trump’s Pardon of Joe Arpaio is an Impeachable Offense, SLATE (Aug. 26, 2017) (http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2017/08/trump_s_pardon_of_joe_arpaio_is_an_impeachable_offense.html)

President Trump Committed Another Impeachable Offense on Friday, SLATE (Nov. 3, 2017) (http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2017/11/president_trump_committed_another_impeachable_offense_on_friday.html)

Prosecuting Trump Cronies Under the Logan Act Would Be a Terrible Own Goal for Robert Mueller, SLATE (Dec. 5, 2017)  (http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2017/12/prosecuting_trump_cronies_under_the_logan_act_would_be_a_terrible_own_goal.html)

Mueller’s Endgame: How He Can Ensure that Congress Sees Any Case Against Donald Trump, SLATE (Jan. 31, 2018)https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/01/how-robert-mueller-can-ensure-congress-sees-any-case-against-donald-trump.html .

No, A Zombie Grand Jury Won’t Save the Russia Probe, POLITICO (Feb. 15, 2018) https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/02/15/trump-grand-jury-fire-mueller-217002

Trump Shouldn’t Relax to Hear He Isn’t a “Target” in the Mueller Investigation, KANSAS CITY STAR (April 7, 2018) http://www.kansascity.com/opinion/readers-opinion/guest-commentary/article208209184.html

Trump’s Suggestion that the Cohen Raid Killed Attorney-Client Privilege Is Hogwash, SLATE (April 10, 2018) https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/04/trumps-suggestion-that-the-cohen-raid-killed-attorney-client-privilege-is-hogwash.html

It’s Too Late for a New “Saturday Night Massacre,” SLATE (April 16, 2018) https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/04/its-too-late-for-trump-to-do-a-new-saturday-night-massacre.html

Yes, the Governor Can Be Impeached Right Now, ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH (April 24, 2018) http://www.stltoday.com/opinion/columnists/yes-the-governor-can-be-impeached-right-now/article_e44bd8e6-1802-57ab-a47d-8a04dbc7970e.html

The Vekselberg Case Increases the Odds of Michael Cohen Turning on Donald Trump, SLATE (May 9, 2018) https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/05/the-vekselberg-case-increases-the-odds-of-michael-cohen-turning-on-donald-trump.html