It's in kind of the poster truth era that we're in.

One of the interesting questions right now is has the president been impeached yet?

How can we do this work better?

I mean, we're not trained at this.

We're not trained at this.

I don't think anyone is.

Hi and welcome back to Amicus.

This is Slates podcast about the law and the courts and the rule of law and the Supreme

Court and also justice and this week impeachment.

It is in fact the case that this past week the House of Representatives impeached president

Donald J. Trump.

It is the third impeachment in US history.

And if you stuck around to listen to the debates, it largely just proved the many ways in which

most of this country now shares a landmass but not reality.

We're going to talk about that impeachment later in the show with Susan Hennessy.

She's executive editor of law fair and we want to ask her her thoughts on impeachment,

the deep state, the Mueller report and going forward what we should wish for for Christmas.

But before we do that, we wanted to check in on a story that barrels alongside but never

quite intersects with the events that happened this week in the capital.

Immigration, asylum, family separations and a set of policies that have no formal connection

at all to impeachment even as they impact tens and thousands of people at the borders.

On this show, we've covered family separation lawsuits.

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