High Crimes and Misdemeanors (feat. Professor Laurence Tribe, Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, and Congressman Jamie Raskin)

Talking Feds

Harry Litman

News, Politics, Government

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🗓️ 3 June 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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An unbelievably high-powered panel-- Professor Laurence Tribe, Dean Erwin Chemerinksy, and Congressman and Judiciary Committee member Jamie Raskin--take up an incredibly important topic, "High Crimes and Misdemeanors." The three set aside some common misconceptions and agree on important aspects of the constitutional term. They then turn to plow new ground, each opining on what potential offense by the President is the most serious and predicting how the Congress may view differently the Venn diagram of potential impeachable offenses. Finally, they offer their thoughts on whether we are at a moment of constitutional failure, and whether the constitutional scheme is likely to prove equal to the stresses that the President has imposed on it. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to a very special episode of Talking Feds. We have an amazing show for you today
0:13.7	and I feel incredibly fortunate to be hosting it. We're going to be taking a close look at the
0:18.7	constitutional concept of high crimes and misdemeanors, which the Constitution specifies as required
0:25.6	to trigger the impeachment and removal of the president and other officials. That concept feels
0:32.5	amorphous and arcane to many people and yet it is the key to determining how the country should
0:38.3	respond to a long series of legal and political abuses by the president of the United States.
0:45.2	And the task feels all the more exigent in the wake of special counsel Robert Mueller's statement,
0:51.2	leaving no doubt that the issue of the president's conduct is now firmly in Congress's hands.
0:58.1	And for our discussion, we have brought together three of the hands-down most eminent and important
1:04.2	thinkers in the country, just an unbelievably high-powered group. They are. Lawrence Tribe, the
1:11.2	Carl M. Loeb University professor at Harvard Law School, author of the leading treatise American
1:17.1	Constitutional Law, a world famous advocate who's argued before the Supreme Court 36 times,
1:23.6	and most recently the author with Joshua Mats of a primer on impeachment to end a presidency.
1:31.7	Welcome Larry Tribe and thank you so much for joining us.
1:35.1	Thank you, Harry. Next, Irwin Chamorinsky, Dean of Berkeley Law School at the University of
1:40.4	California Berkeley, previous founding dean of the University of California Irvine School of Law,
1:46.8	from 2008 to 2017. The author of two leading treatises on constitutional law and federal jurisdiction,
1:55.4	and one of the most cited legal scholars in the country. Welcome Irwin Chamorinsky and thank
2:01.2	you so much for joining us. It's terrific to be with you. And finally, Congressman Jamie Raskin,
2:06.9	himself, a longtime constitutional scholar, and now a member of the House representing
2:13.1	Maryland's eighth district, and perhaps more importantly, a member of the House Judiciary Committee,
2:18.8	which is where impeachment proceedings would begin. Welcome so much Jamie Raskin and thank you
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