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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

Impeaching Other Presidents

Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

Slate Audio

News Commentary,, Government, News

4.63.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2019

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Kate Shaw, a professor of law at Cardozo Law School and the co-director of the Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy. They talk about presidential speech, impeachment, and why figuring out what happens next involves taking a close look at what happened in 1868. Podcast production by Sara Burningham. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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If what we're talking about is not impeachable, then nothing is impeachable.

0:35.0

The very idea that a president might seek the aid of a foreign government in his reelection campaign would have horrified them.

0:43.0

Preservation of the constitutional order they seem to be saying requires an affirmative impeachment vote on these facts.

0:52.0

Hi and welcome to Amicus.

0:57.0

This is Slates Podcast about the courts and the law and the Supreme Court and also justice.

1:03.0

And it seems increasingly it's a show about the constitution and also impeachment.

1:09.0

So like we have stuff to talk about.

1:11.0

This past week in some ways provided a pretty stark example of what it might look like.

1:17.0

It looked like we're the constitution itself to be put on trial.

1:22.0

Certainly we heard a good deal about law professors and how out of touch, elitist, ivory tower, checked out, and just all out boring constitutional law experts really are.

1:36.0

The America will see why most people don't go to law school.

1:41.0

No offense to our professors.

1:44.0

But please, really you may not see this from like the ivory towers of your law school.

1:50.0

If you love America, mamas don't let your babies go up to go to Harvard or Stanford law school.

1:57.0

We got law professors here. What a start of a party.

2:01.0

But we also received, should we choose to receive it?

2:06.0

Absolutely clinic on the framers impeachment constitutional drafting, the conventions impeachable offenses.

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