What Is Impeachment For?

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🗓️ 7 January 2020

⏱️ 6 minutes

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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. This is a preview of a Slate Plus episode. To hear the episode in full, sign up for Slate Plus. Come see Dahlia Lithwick chatting with Andrew Gillum, Rick Hasen, and other guests live at the Hamilton in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 19. Podcast produced by Sara Burningham. Stay in touch: amicus@slate.com, or find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/amicuspodcast/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, Amicus listeners. This is Dahlia Lithwig popping in with not just one but two exciting
0:09.7	announcements. Announcement number one, I wanted you all to be the very first to know about
0:14.4	an exciting project. We have been actually working on hard here at Amicus and about how you can
0:19.8	be a part of it. So there's a lot going on right now. 2020 is completely overwhelming and we're
0:25.6	just days into the new decade but I am trying still to stay laser focused to pay attention to what
0:32.1	really matters and this year more than any other maybe in our lifetime is about who counts and what
0:37.8	that means is election and census and voting. Our question is this, can American democracy survive
0:44.0	the 2020 election? No small ask. So look starting later this month, election law professor and friend
0:49.9	of this show Rick Hassan will be joining us for a special series as we try to find answers to
0:55.7	these existential challenges and you can join us for the special series finale in Washington DC
1:02.5	on February 19th. We are going to have a live and off-the-cuff discussion on the threats to the 2020
1:09.2	election and how to combat them while there is still time if there is still time. Rick and I will
1:15.2	be joined by former Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillam and the director of the ACLU's
1:21.2	Voting Rights Project Dale Ho among other amazing guests. You're going to be hearing more about this
1:26.8	in the coming weeks and you know I don't do a lot of live shows but I'm very psyched about this
1:31.8	one and I wanted to give you a chance to hop online grab your tickets right away. Go to slate.com slash
1:38.2	live to get your tickets. I am so looking forward to seeing you all there. Got that? It's slate.com slash
1:44.7	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
1:55.7	on right now in the slate plus members only feed for this show. I spoke with Neil Cadiol. He's
2:02.9	former acting solicitor general of the United States all about his brand new book impeach the
2:08.4	case against Donald Trump. It is an incredibly timely and useful book and it was an illuminating
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