How Chief Justice Roberts May Preside Over Senate Impeachment

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🗓️ 10 January 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is expected to hand over articles of impeachment to the Senate next week and when the trial begins, Chief Justice John Roberts will be in the center chair. But how much power will he have? If past is prologue, the answer might be... not much. Plus, what Bill Clinton's impeachment might tell us about what to expect from the Senate trial. This episode: White House correspondent Tamara Keith, legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg, and senior editor and correspondent Ron Elving.

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0:00.0	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.
0:05.6	I'm Tamer Keith, I cover the White House.
0:07.4	I'm Ron Elbingett, Editor-Corerespondent.
0:09.1	I'm Neon Todenberg, and I cover the Supreme Court.
0:12.6	And for those of you wondering why this isn't our weekly roundup, it's because another
0:16.8	group of our team is in Chicago recording it live on stage, and that will be in your
0:22.0	podcast feeds on Saturday afternoon.
0:24.8	So in lieu of our regular weekly roundup, we are going to talk about impeachment, but we're
0:31.8	going to talk about history.
0:32.8	We're going to talk about how it works, and we have two of NPR's greatest legal minds
0:39.0	here to talk about this.
0:40.9	Nina, are you of two minds?
0:43.7	No, but Ron, you edited Nina for a long time, so I think that counts, right?
0:48.6	Well, and I actually, actually my first month at NPR was the trial of Bill Clinton in the
0:53.7	Senate in his impeachment proceedings.
0:56.7	And I was co-anchoring those impeachment proceedings for NPR.
1:00.8	For NPR.
1:01.8	Okay, so there's still a lot of stuff that we don't know about how this Senate impeachment
1:06.9	trial is going to work.
1:08.3	We know that the House has impeached the president.
1:10.6	We know there's a lot of disagreement.
1:12.5	Before we get into this, Ron, just the basics.
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