Analysis: In impeachment fight, it´s Trump vs. Constitution
(WorldNews Politics)

NEW YORK (AP) - Donald Trump has spent his time in office trying to bend the conventions of the American presidency to his will. Now he appears to be trying to override a core principle of democracy: that no one is above the law. Faced with an impeachment inquiry, Trump has openly defied the core constructs of the Constitution. He chafes at the idea of co-equal branches of government and rejects the House’s right to investigate him. He has deployed a convoluted logic in which he has declared that the courts can’t investigate him because as president he cannot be charged with a crime, but also Congress cannot impeach him because its inquiry is politically illegitimate. It’s...