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What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law

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What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law

Roman Mars

Government

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🗓️ 30 January 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

On January 13th, former President Donald Trump became the first person ever to be impeached twice by the House of Representatives. But with Trump out of office, it’s unclear if there will be enough votes to reach the two-thirds majority needed to convict him in the Senate. With the trial looming, we look at whether Trump has a good argument against the charge he incited a riot on Capitol Hill, and whether or not it’s constitutional to impeach someone after they leave office.

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0:00.0

All right, well, it's been quite a month. I think we knew that we weren't really done with Trump

0:04.8

when we finished last time, although we did call it the last day. It was still the last day,

0:08.5

is it was still the things that were wrapping up with Trump, but there's so much more to wrap up.

0:13.1

So what did you want to talk about this month? Let's talk about three Wednesdays in January.

0:19.2

On January 6, President Trump's supporters stormed the Capitol as Congress was meeting to

0:24.4

count the electoral college votes to certify Biden as the winner. It is hard to put into words what

0:30.4

exactly we witnessed today because we've not seen this before. Thousands storming the Capitol

0:35.5

after a rally with President Trump during which he urged them to march on the Capitol.

0:40.0

Now, as we all watched thousands of Trump supporters had gathered that day on the ellipse near

0:45.1

the White House or the Save America rally. For weeks, Trump had told the supporters that January 6

0:52.8

was a day to gather in Washington and stop the steal of an election. He falsely claimed that he

0:59.5

won and kept on saying that. For instance, in December, he tweeted, big protest in DC on January 6,

1:07.5

be there will be wild. And at the rally itself, Trump gave a fiery speech. And so here's some of what

1:15.1

he said. He said, you'll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength

1:21.6

and you have to be strong. If you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore.

1:27.3

Now, Trump tells the crowd he knows they'll be marching to the Capitol. He says, we're going to walk

1:33.6

down Pennsylvania Avenue. That's the street that's the most direct route to the Capitol from where they

1:38.4

were. Now, federal officials estimate that something like 800 people left the rally headed to the

1:44.9

Capitol, broke through the barricades and entered the Capitol. There were some temporary barricades and

1:51.1

some Capitol police officers, but they were completely overwhelmed. According to the chairman of

1:56.6

the Capitol Police Labor Committee, some officers suffered brain injuries, cracked ribs, smashed

2:04.4

spinal cord discs. One officer will likely lose an eye. Now, inside the Capitol, we've all seen the

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