The Lawfare Podcast Special Edition: Senate Trial Preview
The Lawfare Podcast
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🗓️ 21 January 2020
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
The Senate impeachment trial of President Trump starts Tuesday. The President now has a legal team. And over the weekend, both the House impeachment managers and the President's lawyers filed initial briefs. In this special edition of the podcast, Benjamin Wittes, Margaret Taylor, Susan Hennessey, David Priess, Scott Anderson, and Paul Rosenzweig talk it all through. What should we make of the president's legal team? What do the briefs say? And what should we expect from the trial to come?
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| 0:27.2 | and the aftermath. |
| 0:30.2 | I'm Benjamin Widis and this is the LawFair podcast January 20th, 2020. |
| 0:38.7 | It is an emergency podcast because we have an emergency which is tomorrow a Senate trial |
| 0:45.4 | of the President of the United States sitting as a court of impeachment will commence. |
| 0:51.6 | It actually formally commenced last week but informally it was shunted off till Tuesday |
| 0:58.8 | when both sides will begin to present arguments on the merits of the case as well as to fight |
| 1:07.0 | over the procedural posture. |
| 1:10.0 | Will we hear from witnesses? |
| 1:12.4 | Will a motion to dismiss the whole thing? |
| 1:15.8 | Put it down relatively quickly. |
| 1:18.8 | Both sides have submitted significant briefs over the weekend and we are here to discuss |
| 1:26.2 | it all. |
| 1:27.5 | With me in the jungle studio is Margaret Taylor, Susan Hennessy, David Pries and Scott Anderson |
| 1:35.5 | and joining us from LawFair's Costa Rica Bureau is Paul Rosen's Wig. |
| 1:43.6 | So let's just get right into it. |
| 1:46.6 | Margaret, get us started. |
| 1:50.5 | Where are we procedurally when the Senate convenes tomorrow? |
| 1:55.9 | What is the business it's going to have to do and what should we expect at a purely mechanical |
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