This week, Chief Justice John Roberts was sworn in to preside over the third presidential impeachment trial in US history. What happens next? What’s Mitch McConnell’s game plan? And who the hell is Lev Parnas? Andrew Prokop breaks it all down.
Then, a Senate impeachment trial is one of the rarest and least understood events in American politics. Constitutional expert Jeffrey Tulis explains how the trial works, what the founders envisioned when they designed it, and why things should look very, very different from the Senate per usual.
And, at the end, the new evidence released by Lev Parnas was damning, but, then again, all of the evidence so far has been incredibly damning. The problem we face in this impeachment trial is not that we lack damning testimony, it’s that we lack Republican senators who are willing to put country over party.
Host:
Ezra Klein (@ezraklein), Editor-at-large, Vox
Guests:
Andrew Prokop (@awprokop), Senior politics correspondent, Vox
Jeffrey Tulis, Professor of Government, University of Texas at Austin
Want to contact the show? Reach out at ezrakleinshow@vox.com
Ezra's book is available for pre-order! You can find it at www.EzraKlein.com.
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Credits:
Producer, Engineer, Editor - Jeff Geld
Researcher - Roge Karma
EP - Liz Nelson
Theme music composed by Jon Natchez
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A step past impeachment
Weeds 2020: The Bernie electability debate
Jill Lepore on what I get wrong
The impeachment trial convicted American politics
The McConnell effect
Impeachment and Iran
Impeachment in, and beyond, the Beltway
Mr. Feldman goes to Washington
How Andrew Johnson’s impeachment created the template for Trump’s
Was Rudy Giuliani always like this?
What’s wrong with the Republican Party?
With obstruction of justice for all
The biggest difference between Trump and Nixon is Fox News
A no-BS guide to how the House impeachment process really works
The Ukraine story is a Russia story
The four words that will decide impeachment
We are living through history
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