Hi, Crimson Mr. Meaders is not a phrase you can take apart word by word.

And most importantly, it doesn't mean what you think it means.

Hi and welcome back to Amicus.

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

Court and the Constitution.

This week the Supreme Court term ended and we are beginning our summer series.

And yet again this year we're going to step back from some of the hustle and bustle of

the specific cases and the term to talk to interesting people who've written interesting

things.

Some of these are people you may not have heard of yet, but their heads are full of super

interesting thoughts.

And so over the course of the summer we're going to open up their heads for you.

This show is about something we've actually talked about before and maybe you've been

thinking about it a little bit yourself and that is impeachment.

Over the course of this spring in particular the country has been engaged in a kind of

loud and more and more I think rancorous conversation about impeachment.

Why did Bob Mueller with all that elaborate investigating and reporting then just stick

the house of representatives with the check and ghost?

And what responsibility does Nancy Pelosi have to the Constitution as opposed to preserving

her house majority in 2020 to think about impeachment?

And I'm not asking this facetiously it's a question that a lot of very smart people have

given a lot of very smart thought to and Frank Bowman is one of those people.

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