Is Impeachment Optional or Mandatory?

Steve Russell
6 min readOct 1, 2019
Metaphorical House of Representatives Photo by Gilles Desjardins on Unsplash

I should put my pundit license into the same status as my law license: inactive.

When I came back, sort of, from my cancer surgery, it was obvious that I could no longer call the coins while they were in the air, as is required of both trial lawyers and judges. Now I’ve sinned against the practice of punditry: I dithered.

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Steve Russell

Enrolled Cherokee, 9th grade dropout, retired judge, associate professor emeritus, and (so far) cancer survivor. Memoir: Lighting the Fire (Miniver Press 2020)