Folks:  Constitutional law questions related to when a President may be
impeached are of course entirely on-topic for this list.  But I think that
once the discussions starts focusing on purely factual questions related to
international events, then it seems to me that it's no longer within list
members' primary expertise.  (The same, of course, goes for factual issues
underlying a wide variety of other constitutional topics, such as the
developmental stage of fetuses, or the practical issues underlying whether
certain gun controls are effective, or economic questions related to the
effectiveness of various tax policies.)

   So let me suggest again a rule of thumb:  If a post is tied pretty
directly to a constitutional question, please include some language in the
post that indeed does so.  On the other hand, if you find that the language
seems forced and not really well-connected to the post, then that might be a
signal that the post is best handled off-list, or on some other list.
Thanks,

   Eugene

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