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no bull and the aftermath.

This brief points to the fact that they're going to just try to create for lack of a better

term, reasonable doubt, although I think in the Senate it's more like any fig leaf they

can grab, to undermine one or more elements here.

And then they build the case wide that should discount the impeachment.

They do it on page 12 when they argue that by charging multiple alleged wrongs in

one article, the House of Representatives has made it impossible to guarantee compliance

with the constitutional mandate.

I'm Benjamin Wittis and this is the LawFair podcast February 3rd, 2021.

We got an impeachment trial coming next week and the two sides, the impeachment managers

for the House of Representatives and the lawyers for the president, the former president,

that is, of the United States filed their briefs before the Senate today.

They couldn't be more different.

One is long, legally dense and factually rich.

The other is short, a mere 14 pages and contains a bunch of interesting oddities.

Joining me in the virtual jungle studio to chew over the briefs are Quinta Jurexic, LawFair's

managing editor and David Pries, LawFair's chief operating officer.

We talked about what the two sides are arguing and what it says about the cases they mean

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