Imagining an Impeachment Trial
The Lawfare Podcast
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🗓️ 15 January 2020
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
There's going to be a House vote tomorrow to send the impeachment articles over to the Senate. Then there's going to be a little parade where the appointed managers from the House take them over. And then, we're going to have a Senate trial. Benjamin Wittes gathered in the Jungle Studio with Margaret Taylor, Molly Reynolds, David Priess, and Jonathan Shaub (by phone) to imagine what that trial will look like. They talked about the ceremonial aspects of the impeachment trial; witnesses, who they can force to show up, and whether they can force them to answer questions; and how the president's defense might defend Donald Trump against these charges.
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 2:25.6 | Our Margaret Taylor, Molly Reynolds and David Prius and joining us from the wilds of Tennessee |
| 2:33.1 | by the magic of telephonic communications is Jonathan Shaob, LawFair contributor who |
| 2:40.0 | is going to be teaching next year at the University of Kentucky. |
| 2:45.5 | We're going to be talking about the ceremonial aspects of the impeachment trial that will |
| 2:51.0 | kick it all off. |
| 2:52.6 | We're going to be talking about witnesses who can they force to show up and can they |
| 2:57.7 | force them to answer questions and we're going to be talking about the president's defense. |
| 3:02.6 | How would you defend Donald Trump against these charges? |
| 3:07.0 | It's the LawFair podcast episode 495, imagining an impeachment trial. |
| 3:16.1 | I want to start Molly with a just kind of where are we now as we are sitting down to record. |
| 3:27.8 | It appears as though the house is getting ready to send over the articles. |
| 3:33.6 | What do we know about where things stand now and when what is going to happen? |
| 3:39.4 | Sure. |
| 3:40.4 | So we're recording this on Tuesday and on Wednesday afternoon is when the house is expected |
| 3:49.1 | to take a vote that will both name managers, so name the members of the house who will |
| 3:55.8 | make the house's case in favor of impeachment in the Senate and formally authorize the |
| 4:01.4 | sending of the articles and associated papers across the Capitol to the Senate. |
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