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Office of legal counsel memos that they treat as binding precedent. they have block letter policy that they treat as the rules. when those things are broken, you can't just say we're not going to do it that way anymore, we're going to go back to following the rules. it's not a self-repairing machine. i've started off a couple weeks ago feeling very urgent about this. now i got to the point where i'm feeling more than urgent about it. we are going to hear from attorney general merrick garland tomorrow. he's going to talk about voting rights. his agency has done nothing we can see publicly visib...

Senator mcconnell, he's kind of in a bit of a bind here because if he moves forward, pelosi will accuse him of taking an initiative without in fact, an impeachment but if he waits, this is hanging over the president's head forever. my question is as constitutional law professors, how long can this don't go on? is there a legal binding precedent here? there is no legal binding precedent but impeach me as a process that starts with a house and must go to the senate. it would be utterly unconstitutional for speaker pelosi to accept my colleague larry tribe's idea, impeach, but don't ever bring it...

Because if he moves forward pelosi will accuse him of taking an initiative without in fact an impeachment, but if he waits this is hanging over the president's head forever. my question is as constitutional law professors, how long can this don't go on? is there a legal binding precedent here? there is no legal binding precedent but impeach me as a process that starts with a house and must go to the senate. it would be utterly unconstitutional for speaker pelosi to accept my colleague larry tribe's idea impeach, but don't ever bring it to the senate. so the impeachment hangs over the president...

Which drops on tuesday, conversations with rbg, ruth bader ginsberg on life, love, liberty and law. jeffrey, the constitution silent as to procedure. do you think they will look to the clinton impeachment process for guidance? and will it be a binding precedent? meaning the way in which clinton's impeachment was handled? >> yes, the clinton impeachment is the best precedent, although it's not binding because the senate could change the rules. in the clinton impeachment, chief justice rehnquist viewed his role as ministerial. he quoted gilbert and sullivan's musical, said i did nothing in parti...

A judge. the only thing that matters is your commitment to correctly applying the law to the facts of any particular case. as far as your approach to judging, you have appropriate respect for precedent. you coauthored an 800 page book that among other things explain that is a change in a court's membership alone should not throw former decisions open to reconsideration or justify their reversal. you explained that for precedent to be overruled, it must not be just wrong, but a case with serious practical consequences. you voted to overturn circuit precedent only four times during your time on ...