Impeachment Academy

Talking Feds

Harry Litman

News, Politics, Government

4.8 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2019

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

The impeachment process moves to the Judiciary Committee, beginning with a panel of scholars addressing constitutional standards for impeachment and applying those standards to the set of facts that the testimony in the Intelligence Committee established beyond reasonable doubt. We engage the historic moment with a two-part episode featuring a remarkably high-powered group of commentators exploring the political and the constitutional considerations of the prospective impeachment. First, David Frum, Jill Wine-Banks, Liz Holtzman, and Harry analyze and appraise the Democrats’ strategy, including serious consideration of whether opening with a panel of scholars is a blunder. Next, we reissue portions of a previous episode in which Professor Larry Tribe, Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, Congress (and Judiciary Committee) member Jamie Raskin, and Harry undertake a deep dive into the meaning of the pivotal constitutional term “High Crimes and Misdemeanors.” 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 special episode of Talking Feds, a prosecutor's roundtable that brings together
0:12.7	prominent former federal officials for a dynamic discussion of the most important legal issues
0:18.4	of the day.
0:20.4	This week, the impeachment proceedings move from the Intelligence Committee where Adam
0:25.8	Schiff and a series of witnesses have brought forward an overwhelming case of bribery and
0:31.6	rank abuse of power by President Trump to Jerry Nadler and the Judiciary Committee,
0:38.1	which is charged with actually voting out articles of impeachment.
0:42.4	And that committee will begin its work with a panel of scholars addressing constitutional
0:47.8	grounds for presidential impeachment and exploring whether the president's actions rise to the
0:54.2	constitutional level of high crimes and misdemeanors.
0:58.5	I'm Harry Littman.
0:59.5	I'm a former United States Attorney and Deputy Assistant Attorney General and a current Washington
1:05.0	Post columnist.
1:07.2	This week, we have a two-part episode to preview the coming hearing and situate it in the
1:12.8	context of the nearest historical analog, the forced resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974
1:20.0	obstruction of justice, abuse of power, and contempt of Congress, all offenses in play
1:27.0	today.
1:29.2	Followers of this podcast know that we previously published an episode on the topic of high
1:34.4	crimes and misdemeanors featuring constitutional law professors Larry Tribe and Erwin Chemerinsky
1:41.2	and Congress member and constitutional law professor Jamie Raskin.
1:46.1	There was a fantastic discussion that was vitally important then and now is of even greater
1:51.2	relevance as the Democrats try to turn the country's focus to the meaning of high crimes
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