Elaine Kamarck
Elaine C. Kamarck is a Senior Fellow in the Governance Studies program as well as the Founding Director of the Center for Effective Public Management at the Brookings Institution. She is an expert on American electoral politics and government innovation and reform in the United States, OECD nations, and developing countries.
"That phone call [between Trump and Zelensky] changed everything. The moderates, Speaker Pelosi, they changed their minds in a very public way in favor of impeachment. They’ve been making their case to the public, and some of them have followed."
"If the White House doesn’t comply with the House subpoenas and investigation, the dispute is 'going to go to the Supreme Court.'"
"In the summer after the Mueller report, Democrats had pretty much given up on impeachment. ... [Trump's call with the Ukrainian president] brought it back with a huge force."
Impeachment: What happens now?
"The report of this whistleblower had very big constitutional implications. ... Here we have an abuse of power that involves the president himself, and that makes it fundamentally different than the Russia investigation."
