OA345: How John Roberts Saved Christmas (Or: Everything You Need to Know About Nixon v. US)
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🗓️ 27 December 2019
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Happy Holidays, everyone! Today, we tackle a number of issues that managed to distract us over the holidays regarding impeachment and do a deep dive into Nixon v. US -- all while weaving in a John-Roberts-as-the-Grinch-Who-Saved-the-Country-From-Mitch-McConnell story. Can it happen? Absolutely. Will it? We don't know. Do you need to listen? ABSOLUTELY.
We begin, however, with the recent filing by the lawyer for the House Judiciary Committee suggesting it might "impeach Donald Trump again." What on earth does that mean, and why is he taking this position? We explain it all.
Then it's time for a brief foray into the debate between Noah Feldman, Laurence Tribe (and Jonathan Turley for good measure) as to whether Trump has really been impeached given that the House has not yet transmitted the articles to the Senate.
As we all know, that question is really academic -- the real issue is: what power does Mitch McConnell have to transform impeachment into a sham proceeding? The answer lies in a 1993 Supreme Court case, Nixon v. US , 506 U.S. 224 -- and it may just reside in Chief Justice John Roberts. You won't want to miss this deep dive storytelling.
After all that, it's time for a brand new #T3BE involving burglary, larceny, and the world's angriest ex-employee. Remember to play along on social media!
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Show Notes & Links
- Click here to read the House's filing before the D.C. Circuit in the McGahn subpoena litigation.
- In the battle of expert turncoats, we have Noah Feldman arguing that Trump hasn't been impeached, and Jonathan Turley arguing that he has.
- Finally, make sure you read Nixon v. U.S., 506 U.S. 224 (1993).
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's the first thing I want to do after we have a different president taking shower? |
| 0:11.0 | And impeachment is about cleansing the office. |
| 0:29.0 | I remind you that here too for a document had had dry ink on it for at least many |
| 0:35.6 | fork nights here to find it a long time ago. |
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| 1:18.6 | Hello and welcome to opening arguments. Mary Christmas Andrew Chores. I'm Thomas Smith. How's it going Andrew? |
| 1:26.6 | Mary Christmas Thomas Smith. Happy holidays. I am doing fantastic. How are you? |
| 1:32.6 | Oh good. I was visited by three ghosts in the night. Okay. And I've got to I got to turn myself around. |
| 1:39.6 | Got to I gotta stop. |
| 1:44.6 | Was that I saw some onion post about how Trump like there's ghosts are getting tired of meeting with or something like that. |
| 1:49.6 | They're like every year the ghost do the thing with Trump. It doesn't work. |
| 1:52.6 | Yeah. If I were more literally gifted I would say that that my show notes for today are what if John Roberts |
| 2:06.6 | Hart grew three sizes that day. How about that as a how about that as a tie in and a preview. |
| 2:12.6 | Well I'm so glad we're here on what I guess will be well I think we're going to see if we can get this out |
| 2:17.6 | really to patrons. I don't know you're hearing this but we don't we don't like to take any time off. |
| 2:22.6 | And it's a show philosophy we have. And I tell you it comes for me it comes from just being a long time |
| 2:30.6 | podcast listener and always being annoyed that you know you got to go home for the holidays and see your |
| 2:35.6 | you know all your uncle clarences and your uncle Franks who you who stopped listening by the way but you still got to see |
| 2:41.6 | uncle Frank often. And you're not even armed with anything to listen to because all your favorite |
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