This Week in Impeachment: A Senate Trial in Limbo
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🗓️ 4 January 2020
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
President Donald Trump was impeached in the House of Representatives just over two weeks ago. There’s just one hitch: The articles of impeachment that were passed haven’t made it to the Senate … yet. It’s part of a tactical hold by the Democrats seeking to ensure that the majority-Republican Senate holds a fair trial. What does that mean? And is Majority Leader Mitch McConnell ready to do that?
Guest: Jim Newell, senior politics writer for Slate.
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| 0:00.0 | Previously, an impeachment. |
| 0:05.0 | All in favor say aye. |
| 0:10.0 | Opposed no. |
| 0:12.0 | No! |
| 0:13.0 | The House voted to charge the President with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. |
| 0:19.0 | No one is above the law and the Constitution is the Supreme |
| 0:23.6 | Wall of the land. |
| 0:25.6 | But has the President really been held accountable if Nancy Pelosi refuses to send the |
| 0:30.6 | articles of impeachment over to the Senate? |
| 0:32.6 | Meanwhile, other House Democrats seem to be suggesting they'd prefer never to transmit the articles. |
| 0:42.0 | Not with me. |
| 0:46.0 | So Jim Newell slates man in Washington. |
| 0:49.5 | I want you to answer one question for me. |
| 0:52.5 | Is the president impeached or not? Let's go with sure. |
| 0:59.5 | Let's go with shruggy emoji. He was impeached in the House. I know there's a technical |
| 1:03.8 | argument about which there's going to be, you know, law review articles written about whether he's |
| 1:08.7 | actually impeached if the articles haven't been transmitted to the Senate. |
| 1:12.2 | But he's impeached. There's a vote on impeachment. He was impeached. |
| 1:16.6 | Well, you were there for the vote. December 18th. Everyone gets into a room in the House of Representatives decides to vote. |
| 1:25.2 | And can you just put us back in that scene? Sure. So I made the mistake of |
| 1:30.4 | showing up around 9-8am when, you know, for the start of the debate. And there were a few |
| 1:35.4 | Republicans tried a few procedural motions just to sort of slow down the process early on. |
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