Impeachment Inquiry Rules Skewed Heavily Against the President
The House of Representatives votes on a resolution formalizing the impeachment inquiry centered on President Donald Trump in Washington on Oct. 31, 2019. Win McNamee/Getty Images
Author’s Note: The impeachment resolution discussed below implies that future committee impeachment investigations will be open to the public. Shortly after this article was published, however, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) announced that closed hearings in the House Intelligence Committee will continue.
Rob Natelson
Author
Robert G. Natelson, a former constitutional law professor who is senior fellow in constitutional jurisprudence at the Independence Institute in Denver, authored “The Original Constitution” (4th ed., 2025). He is a contributor to The Heritage Foundation’s “Heritage Guide to the Constitution.” He also researched and wrote the scholarly article “Virgil and the Constitution,” whose publication is pending in Regent University Law Review.
