#410 How To Remove A President In 12 Days

American Fever Dream

Betches

News, Politics, Daily News

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Sami and Amanda start the show with a quick update about emerging explanations for how the Capitol was mobbed, which suggest that willful ignorance of the openly planned coup, paired with a misguided attempt to avoid the optics we saw during the summer’s peaceful protests, led to tragedy. Then, they welcome back their fave Constitution expert Ben Sheehan to discuss options for the president’s removal. Which is quicker, impeachment or invoking the 25th? And why are there two and half months between the election and inauguration?! Can we fix that like… now? Well, actually... Notes on the episode: There is actually one 1876 precedent for an official (not a president) being impeached after leaving office -- but it involved that official resigning. The matter still hasn't been settled for the president. The Senate has imposed disqualification on holding future federal office twice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Betches media presents.
0:01.6	A lot of them aren't even pretending to be in charge.
0:03.7	Load the testing down.
0:05.2	Remove him from office.
0:06.6	Oh justice, no peace!
0:08.6	Cast a vote that will make you proud.
0:10.6	The Betches suckSup Podcast.
0:13.0	Well, you shut up man.
0:15.0	Hello and welcome to the Betches-Sup podcast. I'm Amanda Duperman.
0:20.0	I'm Sammy Sage.
0:22.0	And today we're going to start the show with a quick update about emerging
0:25.6	and disturbing explanations for what happened on Wednesday and then we're
0:29.2	hopping on with our friend and favorite constitutional expert Ben Sheehan to discuss how to remove
0:34.3	a president in 12 days. This is all Sami and I have been talking about for the past
0:38.8	36 hours or however long it's been. I am like furious.
0:46.2	Furious. Furious.
0:46.7	I get more mad every hour, every time I see,
0:51.6	oh, we could be impeached by midweek it's like and exactly and the
0:55.8	nuclear codes could be pressed by five minutes from now so none of that helps me.
1:01.6	None of that helps me. None of that helps me.
1:03.0	So speaking of things we are furious about, we're learning more about the abundant signs that
1:06.9	far-right extrinos were planning out in the open to occupy the capital with weapons.
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