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If you do not have this historical context, it is hard to truly appreciate what we are seeing in front of our faces. that history is largely not taught in schools. people dont hear about reconstruction and all that it represented. people dont know that the state of south carolina had a majority black house of legislature in 1868, that mississippi had a black senator in 1970. i heard about it, but not a ton. that brings us to the assault on history that republicans are now pairing with their assa...

Right? statement is just as true now as it was 50 years ago. everything old is new again. if you do not have this historical context, it is hard to truly appreciate what we are seeing in front of our faces. but that history is largely not talked in schools. people dont hear about reconstruction and all they represented. people dont know that the state of south carolina had a majority black lower house of state legislature in 1868. that mississippi had a black senator in 1970. i mean, i heard abo...

By The Associated Press Today is Wednesday, Feb. 24, the 55th day of 2021. There are 310 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Feb. 24, 1868, the U.S. House of Representatives impeached President Andrew Johnson by a vote of 126-47 following his attempted dismissal of Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton; Johnson was later acquitted by the Senate. On this date: In 1803, in its Marbury v. Madison decision, the Supreme Court established judicial review of the constitutionality ...

Them that all of this reasoning simply makes no sense. and so my disappointment extends not just to the votes but to what they said about them and my hope is that they will be held accountable. i think mitch mcconnell has walked his caucus off a cliff. hes made a short-term political calculation but they are risking long-term cost for exactly the kind of nonreasoning and hypocrisy that you mentioned. >> i want you to -- get your response to this. it has never been the case in the history of the ...

Alaska. even if she votes in favor of witnesses, that would present a 50-50 tie. that would make a very small possibility that chief justice roberts would break the tie for witnesses. i dont think that would happen. >> zero chance of that happening. >> it has been done before in an impeachment trial. >> it has been done. it was done twice in 1868 by chief justice chase. immediately after that, senator sumner of massachusetts made a motion, in essence, to amend the impeachment rules to deny the v...

2nd -- >> 1868? >> 1868. a while ago. by the end of the trial, the chief justice was confronted with a motion on the vote to adjourn the trial for a month. it was a tie vote and he declined to vote, and im thinking that he voted in the first two instances and refrained in the third instance, basically based on his personal comfort. >> and senator santorum, he was raked over the coals. there is very little indication that chief justice roberts wants to weigh in on political justice. >> salmon cha...

>> thank you. i wasnt born yet. >> senator santorum, something that im really curious about. john kelly, retired marine general, man of honor, former white house chief of staff, national security adviser john bolton, former conservative icon, they are out there quite obviously saying that john bolton needs to be heard from. theres really -- you could argue about john boltons book sales, but intellectually, politically, theres no upside to be saying that, especially for john kelly. why does it se...

Democrats, thats 50-50, and there are three republicans who have expressed an interest in hearing more, and there is precedent for a supreme court chief justice presiding over an impeachment. this would be chief justice chase during the impeachment of president andrew johnson. a lot of current court observers do not think chief justice john roberts is inclined to get involved in a trial the way he did in the 1868 trial of president an drodrew johnson. that is part of chasens legacy, he was criti...

Be hard to kick. ironically, while this was happening here at home, across the atlantic the use of impeachment as a weapon disappear disappeared. and the united kingdom from which, of course, we inherited the process, impeachment was first used more than two centuries before those first settlers crossed the atlantic. but upon thoughtful examination, a number of modern day parliamentary committees looked and found impeachment to be obsolete. among other criticisms. members of parliament came to t...

Arguments but specific things that really serve that corrupt coverup narrative that gets you to the intent of not letting congress have one single thing. >> yes. and i think that that also in some ways relates to the character logical case schiff made last night, and in some ways is the sub text of the whole thing. democrats are up there trying to make arguments that they think will appeal to some marginal swing senators, right? the institutional prerogative might appeal. some day the shoe will ...