Both U.S. Senators from Virginia have called for invoking the 25th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution to remove President Donald Trump from office, but Larry Sabato at the UVA Center for Politics says that's easier said than done.
Political scientists from across the country, including dozens from Virginia, have called for the removal of President Donald Trump from office. In the letter to Congress, Vice President Mike Pence and the Cabinet, the signers say the 25th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution needs to be invoked. Several people from the University of Virginia signed it, including John B. Holbein, Kevin Cope, Denise M. Walsh, Justin Schon, Alexander Welch, Nicholas Winter and Jacob Lollis.
In an interview Thursday, local activist Jalane Schmidt quoted poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou. “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time,” Schmidt said. “They don’t see the danger of it. People of color do, and people who fight for racial justice, we do. We take it very seriously because there’s the whole history here of violence and police don’t see that.”
In 2017, white supremacists announced their intention to march in Charlottesville before the rally, said Jalane Schmidt, a race and religion professor at UVA. They threatened the lives of certain Charlottesville residents and even planned a car attack — which later happened, she said.
Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle are asking Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment. UVA law professors Deborah Hellman and Charles Barzun weigh in on what this could look like if it goes into effect.
(Video) UVA political science chair Jennifer Lawless spoke to the acts of domestic terrorism at the United States Capitol on Wednesday — and what she sees are the prospects for those who are calling for President Donald Trump’s removal.
(By Aynne Kokas, a senior faculty fellow at the Miller Center for Public Affairs and a professor of Sino-US relations) As a scholar of US-China relations, what strikes me most is that while lawmakers condemn anti-democratic actions abroad, we failed our core institutions, those that seek to build a timeless democracy through knowledge.
MIT Center for Information Systems Research principal research scientist Barbara Wixom, University of Queensland lecturer Ida Someh, and University of Virginia professor Robert Gregory found that the successful AI programs achieve three interdependent states of consistency: scientific consistency, application consistency, and stakeholder consistency.
If the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico become new states of the Union, it will see the emergence of four new senators — two for each of them. In the House, D.C. will get one seat while Puerto Rico can have upto four seats, according to the Center for Politics, University of Virginia.
For many people, the question, “What race or ethnicity are you?” on the census can come with several different answers. Demographers at the University of Virginia say the way we identify ourselves on the census, paired with its format, could cause some confusion as data from it – set to be released within the coming months – is studied and used.
The University of Virginia kicked off a series of discussions last night called “Democracy Dialogues,” but its host had to scramble as news of chaos at the Capitol broke. More than 10,000 people listened in.
A bus route between Charlottesville and the Shenandoah Valley just got the green light for funding. The bus will include four morning and four evening trips on weekdays, with stops at hubs like UVA, where more than 1,200 employees with UVA parking permits reside in the Staunton and Waynesboro areas.
Political cartoonist Patrick Oliphant kept some of his hate mail. Some of it he memorized and can still recite verbatim. Some are now housed in the archives at the University of Virginia, a curious memento from a career that lasted for more than half a century and defined political parody in some of the most prominent newspapers in the United States.
Dr. Ebony Hilton, who is 38, is a professor and an anesthesiologist at the UVA School of Medicine. UVA’s hospital has some 600 beds, but at night Hilton often works alone: “I’m literally the only anesthesiologist attending for the entire hospital. At that moment, I can’t shut down, I can’t go to my room and let fear stop me. … I don’t think any of us have slowed down to think that this could be the one that gets me sick. You don’t have time to consider options A, B, C and D. You’ve got to gown up and go.”
As a part of our series about “Emotional Intelligence, I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Andrea Lein, a psychologist, parent coach, and consultant focused on helping bright, struggling young people succeed in life. She holds a Ph.D. in Clinical & School Psychology from the University of Virginia, and has spent the last twenty years serving as a school administrator, school psychologist, researcher, teacher, and gifted education expert.
Lindsay Shoop’s competitive spirit manifested itself into an Olympic gold medal in rowing at the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing and later garnered an induction into the National Rowing Hall of Fame. The 39-year-old UVA alumna and Charlottesville native athlete-turned-coach and public speaker added another accolade to her portfolio recently: book author. “Better Late Than Never” outlines Shoop’s struggles with depression and encourage athletes to pursue their dreams.
A new advisory committee will be working on recommendations on culturally relevant and inclusive education practices in public schools in Virginia. According to a release, the Culturally Relevant and Inclusive Practices Advisory Committee held its first meeting on Wednesday. Among the committee members is University of Virginia student Austin Houck.
“In terms of Virginia, both of our members of the Senate, are going to be in the majority party in a situation where the Democrats have a majority in both houses of Congress and they have the president,” said J. Miles Coleman at the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
With the two Senate wins in Georgia, Democrats win control of the Senate. For the first time since 2008, Democrats will control all three branches of government. Now, University of Virginia Center for Politics Director Larry Sabato weighs in on what that means for the country.
With Warnock and Ossoff now heading to the Senate, many progressives are hopeful that their wins will grant Democrats a smooth path forward in implementing a more left-leaning agenda. But during a recent conversation with Newsweek, Jennifer Lawless, a professor of politics at the University of Virginia, said the reality likely won’t be as clear-cut. With narrow majorities in the House and Senate, Democratic leaders will have to strike a balance between securing legislative victories and avoiding alienating the more moderate members of their party.