What Is Impeachment For?
Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts
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🗓️ 7 January 2020
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
In a conversation taped live at the Aspen Institute, Dahlia Lithwick speaks to former acting solicitor general of the United States Neal Katyal about impeachment, and how he approaches is it as an “extremist centrist.”
Katyal’s book, co-written with Sam Koppelman, Impeach: The Case Against Donald Trump, is out now.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Amicus listeners. This is Dahlia Lithwick, popping in with not just one, but two exciting announcements. |
| 0:10.7 | Announcement number one, I wanted you all to be the very first to know about an exciting project. |
| 0:15.8 | We have been actually working on hard here at Amicus and about how you can be a part of it. |
| 0:22.5 | So there's a lot going on right now. 2020 is completely overwhelming and we're just days into the new decade. But I am |
| 0:28.4 | trying still to stay laser focused to pay attention to what really matters. And this year, |
| 0:34.1 | more than any other maybe in our lifetime, is about who counts. And what that means |
| 0:38.4 | is election and census and voting. Our question is this. Can American democracy survive the |
| 0:44.3 | 2020 election? No small ask. So look, starting later this month, election law professor |
| 0:49.5 | and friend of this show, Rick Hassan, will be joining us for a special series as we try to find answers |
| 0:55.6 | to these existential challenges. And you can join us for the special series finale in Washington, |
| 1:01.7 | D.C. on February 19th. We are going to have a live and off-the-cuff discussion on the threats |
| 1:08.5 | to the 2020 election and how to combat them while there is still time, if there is still time. |
| 1:14.7 | Rick and I will be joined by former Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum and the director of the ACLU's Voting Rights Project, Dale Ho, among other amazing guests. |
| 1:25.2 | You're going to be hearing more about this in the coming weeks, and you know, don't do a lot of live shows, but I'm very psyched about this one. |
| 1:32.2 | And I wanted to give you a chance to hop online, grab your tickets right away. |
| 1:36.5 | Go to Slate.com slash live to get your tickets. |
| 1:39.9 | I am so looking forward to seeing you all there. |
| 1:42.7 | Got that? |
| 1:43.3 | It's slate.com slash live for tickets to maybe the most important conversation on voting that you'll hear this year. |
| 1:49.9 | Now, announcement number two, and that is that there is a fascinating conversation about impeachment going on right now in the Slate Plus members only feed for this show. |
| 2:01.2 | I spoke with Neil Cartial. |
| 2:02.7 | He's former acting solicitor general of the United States all about his brand new book, Impeach, The Case Against Donald Trump. |
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