To exclude from trial . Therefore, from the American Public evidence. I mean, were prosecutors, we are used to evidence. Thats how we measure our cases, measure our progress. And if Senator Mcconnell has decided in coordination with the white house that its going to be run in a particular way to exclude facts and evidence and witnesses an documents what does that make the senate . It is just an amazing point for you to be making. Americas history is being an advocate around the world for the i think it is fair to call that a banana court, a banana republic, a kangaroo court. We used to be a country that helped bring the rule of law to other countries. So impeachment wasnt designed to be a trial like in an article 3 court but it was designed to be a process and a high mined one in which facts mattered. Right . The framers had this fascinating
trial. You could have put an Impeachment Trial in the judiciary. They didnt want to. Theoretically, the house, the house had the other job of sort
implications for the nation. andrew johnson, the first impeachment trial in country, a lot of that trial was fundamentally of what does our constitution mean? is this impeachable? why? why not? that s a legitimate impeachment debate. if we were hearing a debate about the impact on the impeachment clause of the constitution, the impact on what the standard should be for considering whether a president s just making a bad decision or a president is making a corrupt decision. those are the kinds of key kind of democracy debates that this process should be permitting. and instead, it s been so infected i think as eddie said so poignantly by the jaundiced lens that it corrupted the very notion about what this article of the constitution even means. donna edwards, chairman
impeachment clause of the constitution. they chose their words and their words matter. you know, it was my father bob dean come a terrific dad and talented writer who instilled ie and my brothers and sisters the love of language. he taught us our words matter. the truth matters. it is through that which i see all of the seriousness and somber things we are speaking about today, foreign interference, bribery, obstruction. the framers likely could not have imagined all three concerns embodied in one single leader, but they were concerned enough to the impeachment. the times have found us. i am prayerful for the president, for our country, for ourselves. may we come with the people hold high the decency and promise and ambition of the founding end of the words that matter and of the truth. with that my yield back mr. chairman. speak with a gentle lady yields back. thank you, thank you professors for your time today. it s been a long day. i want to tell you, i did not
free exercise and establishment clauses, tenth circuit from 2002, 2009, published broadly, bonafide are quite significant. a number of topics that i want to touch on during the course of this hour, we are not going to get everything i d like to talk about but we would get to some of them, the first one is impeachment, we hear impeachment being discussed left and right in the country, in the media, by politicians, here is the impeachment clause of the constitution and here is what it says, the president, the vice president, all offices in the united states shall be removed from office on impeachment for and conviction of treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors, here it said with popular culture that that pretty much means it s a political