A Trial That's Not A Trial
Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts
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4.6 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Neil Eggleston, White House Counsel during the last three years of the Obama Administration. He also represented the Office of the President in privilege litigation against the Starr Independent Counsel’s Office during the President Clinton Whitewater/Lewinsky investigation. Together, they take a close look at the lawyers surrounding the president, and at the legal strategies in play as the impeachment process moves into its trial phase.
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| 0:00.0 | Do you solemnly swear that in all things |
| 0:08.4 | appertaining to the trial of the impeachment of Donald John Trump, |
| 0:12.8 | President of the United States, now pending, |
| 0:15.4 | you will do impartial justice according to the Constitution and laws. |
| 0:19.7 | So help you God. |
| 0:29.1 | Amen. justice according to the Constitution and laws. So help you God. Hi, and welcome back to Amicus. |
| 0:31.4 | This is Slate's podcast about the courts and the law and the rule of law and the impeachment trial. |
| 0:39.1 | I had to confess to my editors this week that the main reason I was personally glued to the screen watching Chief |
| 0:44.4 | Justice John Roberts swearing in the members of the Senate for the opening of Donald Trump's |
| 0:49.7 | impeachment trial on Thursday was because I had been covering the court for two decades and I'd never seen the man's legs. |
| 0:56.6 | It was amazing. It was like watching Oscar the Grouch just hop up and walk out of his garbage can and I, for one, found that thrilling. |
| 1:05.6 | Related. If you think about it for a minute, this impeachment that we're involved in now is at base about |
| 1:11.9 | election interference. The reason we cannot put off dealing with the president's actions |
| 1:16.5 | until this coming November is that for the second time that we know of, he's tried to affect |
| 1:23.5 | the outcome of an election by asking a foreign power to dig up dirt on arrival. |
| 1:29.1 | And we cannot wait for the election because he's doing that right now with this very election. |
| 1:34.6 | So next week, we're going to start to bring you a special series of amicus that is going to ask |
| 1:39.7 | tough questions about the very integrity of U.S. elections. |
| 1:46.5 | Election law professor Rick Hassan is going to try to help us map out the serious issues and challenges facing this too often overlooked institution, |
| 1:53.6 | just voting. Next week, the behind-the-scenes story of what happened with the president's now |
| 1:59.1 | defunct voter fraud commission, spoiler, bonkers, |
| 2:04.0 | and you will hear about a stunning cross-examination that buttoned up probably the most significant |
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