harry blackburn of the united states supreme court and is a deputy assistant attorney general in the civil rights department of justice, she was responsible for among other things for viewing the work of the voting sections. professor carlin earned three degrees and ma in history and jd from yale law school. michael gerhardt is the burden cray distinguished professor of jurisprudence at the university of north carolina law and director of uc law and government. professor gerhardt is the author of many books, including the federal impeachment process, the constitutional and historic am analysis as well as 50 law view publications on a diverse range of topics and constitutional law, federal jurisdiction and the legislative process. he received his jd from the law school and ms from the london school of economics and ba from yale university. jonathan turley is the jd and
evidence in the 300-page report from the intelligence community so let s dispense by that clim by my republican colleagues. professor turley wrote on august 1st, 2014 in a piece called five myths about impeachment, one of the myths he was rejected was that impeachment required a criminal offense and he wrote, and i quote, an offense does not have to be indictable. serious misconduct or violation of public trust is enough. end quote. was professor turley right when he wrote that back in december of 2014. yes, i agree with that. to professor karlan. at the constitutional convention eldridge jerry said foreign powers will meddle in our affairs and spare to expense to spare them and a president might be tray his trust to a foreign power. professor carlin can you explain
jeffrey toobin and other members of our pane em. it seems this is the second time that republicans have forced a procedural vote and chairman nadler the democrat is moving to table it. it will no doubt be successful. what itself the purpose of this other than to kind of gum up the works? jeffrey. i think you summed it up very quite. we i don t think there is a purpose besides that what s significant about the rules of this committee is that the republicans even when they make frivolous motions like that one to delay this hearing to, is that they can get a role call vote, which as we are watching here, and there are more than 40 members of this committee, it just takes a long time. so, anyway, i don t want to interrupt. mr. chairman, there are 24 ayes, 17 nos. the motion to table is adopted and i recognize professor carlin for her
he s entitled to keep all information confidential from congress, doesn t have to give a reason. would you put on those things together, he s blocked in every way to hold himself accountable except for elections and the critical thing to understand here is that is precisely what he was trying to undermine in the ukraine situation. professor carlin, do you have anything to add to that analys analysis? i think that s correct. if i can say one thing, i like to apologize for what i said earlier about the president s son. it was wrong of me to do that. i wish the president what apologize for the things he s done that s wrong, but i do regret having said that. thank you, professor. one of the most import questions every member of this committee must decide is whether we are a nation of laws and not man. used to be an easy answer, one we could all agree on.