Impeachment and Election Security
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2019
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Impeachment has dominated the news for more than a month, but the flurry of headlines often leads to more confusion than clarity. Where exactly are we in the process? How does public opinion influence the shape and the ultimate outcome of that process? What will the role of the courts be in the coming months? On Monday, November 4, Darrell West, vice president and director of Governance Studies at Brookings, moderated a panel of Brookings experts discussing impeachment developments and giving helpful context. Joining West were Lawfare's editor-in-chief Benjamin Wittes and three additional Brookings senior fellows: Molly Reynolds, Bill Galston, and Elaine Kamarck.
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| 1:03.0 | The Nixon impeachment is more or less a classic, but in terms of the weightiness of the matters, |
| 1:11.0 | there was clearly obstruction of justice. |
| 1:14.0 | What we tend to forget, however, is that lots and lots and lots of people went to jail. |
| 1:20.0 | And it took a long time. |
| 1:23.0 | It took until August of 1974 for the smoking gun tape to finger the president himself. |
| 1:33.0 | So Nixon hung on and hung on and hung on until that tape. |
| 1:39.0 | And then it was a matter of days and Nixon resigned. |
| 1:43.0 | And of course, once the tape came out, the Republican Party, Senator Goldwater, |
| 1:48.0 | leading the delegation, walked into the Oval Office and said, |
| 1:51.0 | we don't have the votes to prevent your impeachment. |
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