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The Senate will convene his accord of impeachment.

Chief Justice Renquist, when he was providing a real Bill Clinton's impeachment trial,

famously decided he wanted fancier robes for it because it was Gumbyon TV.

And so he saw a local production of a Gilbertan Sullivan play.

This is the music from the opera, by the way. It's Iolanthe.

And wanted the robes from that. So he had special robes made with like special stuff on the arms,

because you really like it from Gilbertan Sullivan.

Two thirds of those senators voting, an accord being present, not having voted in the affirmative.

The motion is not agreed to.

The important thing to remember is all of this is being made up as we go along.

And so when they're impeaching Bill Clinton, they go, I don't know what are we supposed to do.

Let's see what they did to Andrew Johnson. And they just follow that same playbook to try

so they can go and claim, oh, there's precedent for all of this. This is just like Andrew Johnson.

So we just keep on doing these things that they made up in the 1860s for no apparent reason.

And we wind up with people dressed like they're in Gilbertan Sullivan.

On this vote, the A's are 62. The A's are 38. Division three of the motion is agreed to.

I'm Nick Capity-J. I'm Hannah McCarthy.

And this is Civics 101. And we're interrupting our ongoing series on presidential elections

to bring you this special episode on impeachment.

We try not to let current events dictate the content of our show,

but it's not every day that the house begins an impeachment inquiry.

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