Laurence Tribe says Trump should be impeached again — even if a Senate conviction is unlikely
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🗓️ 12 January 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Jonathan Kapart and this is Cape Up. |
| 0:07.0 | According to the Constitution, Donald Trump has another eight days in the White House. |
| 0:11.0 | But after the January 6th invasion of the U.S. |
| 0:14.1 | capital by his supporters at his instigation, there are calls to invoke other |
| 0:18.5 | provisions of the Constitution to remove him from office now. |
| 0:23.0 | Harvard constitutional law professor, Lawrence Tribe, believes Trump should be |
| 0:26.3 | impeached again. |
| 0:28.2 | Then he walks us through all the reasons why it must be done. |
| 0:31.6 | Even if a Senate trial won't happen right away or a conviction |
| 0:35.1 | unlikely. We also talk about removing Trump via the 25th Amendment and |
| 0:39.9 | Tribe explains why the push to use Section 3 of the 14th amendment instead against |
| 0:44.7 | Trump is an inadequate response to the violent insurrection he inspired. |
| 0:49.5 | Oh, and we talked about his former student Ted Cruz, here at all, right now. Professor Tribe, |
| 1:03.0 | welcome back to the podcast. |
| 1:04.6 | It's been three years. |
| 1:06.4 | Wow, it doesn't seem like three years. |
| 1:09.0 | It seems like three months, but you know, time is very both compressed and expanded these days. I wonder if it'll feel different after January 20th. |
| 1:19.0 | One can only hope and pray, but that is why we are here because we need to have a discussion |
| 1:25.3 | about what could possibly happen over the next nine days. And right now the entire |
| 1:31.5 | conversation happening in the country is about the insurrection by domestic terrorists on the U.S. capital on January 6th. |
| 1:40.0 | And what form of accountability should President Trump have for inciting his followers and supporters to do that to the capital. |
| 1:55.0 | And I want to walk through each of the proposed things. |
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