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What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law

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What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law

Roman Mars

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🗓️ 30 January 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

On January 13th, former President Donald Trump became the first person ever to be impeached twice by the House of Representatives. But with Trump out of office, it’s unclear if there will be enough votes to reach the two-thirds majority needed to convict him in the Senate. With the trial looming, we look at whether Trump has a good argument against the charge he incited a riot on Capitol Hill, and whether or not it’s constitutional to impeach someone after they leave office.

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0:00.0

All right, well, it's been quite a month. I think we knew that we weren't really done with Trump when we finished last time,

0:06.1

although we did call it the last days. It was still the last days. It was still the things that were wrapping up with Trump,

0:10.9

but there was so much more to wrap up. So what did you want to talk about this month?

0:14.9

Let's talk about three Wednesdays in January. On January 6th, President Trump supporters

0:21.6

stormed the Capitol as Congress was meeting to count the

0:24.8

electoral college votes to certify Biden as the winner.

0:29.2

It is hard to put into words what exactly we witnessed today because we have not seen this before.

0:34.0

Thousands storming the capital after a rally with President Trump during which he

0:37.8

urged them to march on the Capitol. Now as we all watch thousands of Trump supporters had gathered that day on the ellipse near the White House or the Save America rally.

0:48.0

For weeks, Trump had told his supporters that January 6th was a day to gather in Washington and

0:55.4

stop the steal of an election he falsely claimed that he won and kept on

1:00.4

saying that. For instance in December he tweeted big protest kept on

1:05.0

saying saying that. And at the rally itself, Trump gave a fiery speech.

1:14.0

And so here's some of what he said.

1:16.0

He said, you'll never take back our country with weakness.

1:20.0

You have to show strength, and you have to be strong.

1:23.7

If you don't fight like hell,

1:25.1

you're not going to have a country anymore.

1:27.5

Now, Trump tells the crowd he knows they'll be marching to the capital.

1:31.7

He says, we're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue.

1:35.6

That's the street that's the most direct route to the capital from where they were.

1:39.6

Now federal officials estimate that something like 800 people left the rally, headed to the

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