The Best Way to Punish Trump

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🗓️ 12 January 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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With just over a week left in the Trump presidency, Congressional Democrats are asking Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment and strip President Trump of his power. Is that the right way to hold the president accountable? Guest: Brian Kalt, law professor at Michigan State University. His latest book is Unable: The Law, Politics, and Limits of Section 4 of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	There are some things that can truly ruin your wedding.
0:03.0	For example, a stain on your wedding dress.
0:06.0	Or the appearance of your ex.
0:09.0	Give him bite it your ex.
0:10.0	You forgot to bite my shirt all the way out.
0:12.0	Or a bunch of pirates.
0:14.0	You take everybody hostage.
0:16.0	Here's the plan.
0:17.0	The new action romantic comedy starring Jennifer Lopez.
0:20.0	Give me the grenades, sir.
0:21.0	And Josh Dumel.
0:22.0	You got it!
0:23.0	Shotgun wedding.
0:24.0	Coming 27th January, only on Prime Video,
0:27.0	included with Prime.
0:34.0	Brian Colt is an expert on all these far out things.
0:38.0	No one thought we're going to really happen during a presidency
0:41.0	until Trump took office.
0:44.0	I got interested in the constitutional law of the presidency in law school.
0:51.0	I happened to ask in class,
0:54.0	we were talking about presidential pardons,
0:57.0	and I asked can the president pardon himself?
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