Trump's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Impeachment Defenses

The Gist

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🗓️ 4 February 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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On the Gist, importing walkie-talkies into Myanmar. In the Interview, we're coming into a new constitutional cycle, and it means Democrats could take quite a bit of power. Well, if they don't blow it. We've been in the same Republican-dominated cycle for decades, according to Jack Balkin, author of The Constitutional Cycles of Time. Balkin and Mike talk about the extreme political polarization not seen since the Civil War, constitutional rot, and, just for fun, delve into conservative complaints about de-platforming and free speech. Balkin is a Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment and Director for The Information Society Project at Yale Law School. In the spiel, delving into the Trump files ahead of the Impeachment trial. Email us at thegist@slate.com Podcast production by Margaret Kelley and Cheyna Roth. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains a bit of explicit material,
0:05.0	but much, much more that is not explicit, just as a percentage.
0:09.1	It's Wednesday, February 3rd, 2021, from Slate,
0:16.3	to the Gista in Mic Pesca.
0:18.8	Yesterday, we brought you the news of the arrest
0:21.3	of Aung-Sung Su-Chi in a coup in her country of Myanmar,
0:26.0	but I failed to relay the exact charge, of course.
0:29.6	If I related over say a system of closed radio handsets,
0:36.0	I might be, if not insensitive, even possibly compounding
0:39.9	the offense because An-San Su-Chi was charged with here,
0:43.7	Bloomberg has the news.
0:45.3	In Myanmar, the military has charged former civilian leader
0:48.1	Aung-San Su-Chi with breaking an import export law.
0:51.8	She could end up with a three-year prison term,
0:53.9	illegally imported walkie-talkies were found in her home.
0:57.1	Yes, walkie talkies.
0:58.8	And not a huge cash of walkie talkies, reportedly 10,
1:03.1	or to break this down for the layman, five walkies, five talkies.
1:06.8	This is obviously a ruse.
1:08.2	I mean, she probably did have the walkie talkies.
1:11.0	That doesn't seem like an outlandish thing to have.
1:13.6	The ruse is that it's a trumped-up charge
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