Senate, the trial against president bill clinton. Joining us here is alexis simmon burgers. We had never seen anything like this before. The last trial was in the 1860s. No television with Andrew Johnson. What do you remember about what happened and how this transpired . The senate trial was fascinating. A trial that it called but its not a legal proceeding. It is very political. It had so many interesting dynamic characters involved in it. Robert byrd, senator byrd of was virginia, stalwart constitutional scholar. Not a supporter or friend of bill clinton in any particular way. He ended up at one point just throwing up his hands and saying , this should not have even happened. The trial was misguided. That hehis colleagues was going to introduce a motion to dismiss the whole thing. Senators played different roles. The house managers were fascinated to listen to the president legal team. Array of legal representation there. Adalso tried to sort of english on the ball. He wanted to repr
No television, of course, with Andrew Johnson. What do you remember about what happened and how this all of this transpired over the next month . The senate trial was fascinating because of the idea that it is called a trial, but its not a legal proceeding. It is very political. It had so many interesting dynamic characters involved in it. Robert byrd, senator byrd of was of west virginia, stalwart constitutional scholar. Not a supporter or friend of bill clinton in any particular way. He ended up at one point just throwing up his hands and saying, this should not have even happened. That the trial was misguided. He told his colleagues that he was going to introduce a motion to dismiss the whole thing. So, different senators played different roles. The house managers were fascinated to listen to the president s legal team. He had a strong array of legal representation there. He also tried to sort of add english on the ball. He wanted to represent, he had women as his legal representati
The senate. Fall of 1998, the house of representatives taking up articles of impeachment against William Jefferson clinton. Well see some highlights but joining us in the studios is alexis simendinger. Lets begin with the political environment in 1998. What led to the impeachment of clinton . One of the interesting things we might forget all this time, forward, is that bill clinton was under investigation or almost his entire presidency. And ken starr became the counsel. Nt ken starr had begun to investigate the whitewater 1994. Ment deal back in so by the time were in the fall clinton and ident his entire house were very used to being under investigation for a whole variety of allegations relating to his past in arkansas. And even his Fundraising Efforts when he was president. Fall of 1998, he was elected to a second term but into the midterm what ken starr as the independent counsel had of vered was a whole series alleged relationships that the president had had in the past, investig
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Panel today. Discussing the topic of social media content moderation. I want to begin by thanking our cosponsors the session on [indiscernible] i will also announce that this is being recorded. Additionally, we welcome our Live Audience on cspan. We will allow for audience questions at the end of our session. 20 minutes of time i will invite you up to the microphone if you have any questions for our panelists. Additionally, a business meeting will follow. If youre interested you can come speak with us at the end of this panel. I would love to introduce to you our distinguished panelists today. Immediately to my left is kate. An assistant professor of law at st. Johns University School of law. She is a fellow at the yale law school. Her research a Network Freedom of expression and private government have appeared in and [indiscernible] in popular press. Then we have an assistant professor of law at drexel university. She is also a fellow at the center for democracy and technology. Her w