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I am joined by my colleague paul clement its good to see you. Likewise it is good to see you. We served as Solicitor Generals Office during past transition so we should probably start by digging in a little bit what is happening on that front and how this transition might be different than past transitions. Maybe we will talk about the specific cases that could be impacted by the change in the administration. And given there is another impeachment trial about to begin maybe we should talk about thatouri also. Would you mind introducing yourself to the audience . I would be happy to. I will spare you the biography and just talk about two things that are relevant for todays presentation. First is the georgetown connection both m eo and undergrad and somebody who has been teaching at the law school since the clinton impeachment thats my first started teaching separation ofol power at the law school so that affiliation runs ....
Well, hello, everyone. Im bhan behalf of georgetown law, i want to welcome you to our conversation on constitutional priorities. My name is nean neal katyal. Im joined by general paul clement. Thank you for joining me. Paul this should be fun. Neal i think we should dig into how this transition might be different than past transitions. And maybe well talk a little bit about the specific cases that could be impacted by the change in the administration. Maybe we should talk a little about that too. Right before getting into all that, paul, would you just mind introducing yourself to the audience . Paul sure, i would be happy to neal. My name is paul clement. Ill just talk about two things that are relevant for todays presentation. First, is just the georgetown connection. Im a georgetown undergrad and somebody who has been teaching at the law school in various capacities since the clinton impeachment, since 1998. Thats when i featured a separation of powers class at the law school some o ....
According to the constitution and the laws so help you god. The clerk will call the names and record the responses. Was january 7, 1999. From the floor of the senate the trial of president till clinton. We had never seen anything like this before. Thelast trial was back in 1850s, no television with Andrew Johnson. What do you remember about what happened and how this transpired . The senate trial was fascinating because of the idea that it was called a trial but. T is not a legal proceeding it had so many interesting dynamic characters involved in it. Robert byrd of west virginia, a stall wart constitutional , not a supporter or friend of bill clinton. He ended up at one point throwing up its hands and admitting this should not have happened. And heal was misguided even told a colleague that he was going to introduce a motion to dismiss the whole thing. Different senators play different roles. The house managers were fascinated to ....
Since the last oral argument in this case the committee referred to the house of representatives, the house of representatives approved two articles of impeachment. Neither of those articles arise out of the events investigated by the special counsel nor the events described in the report of the special counsel land we are here today facing a different claim by the committee, for some political reasons pages 13 to 17 of the supplements a brief their argument is they need the grand jury information to prove in a senate trial on the articles of impeachment approved by the house, the president s culpability for those high crimes and misdemeanors. There are a couple problems with that. The first is that is not what the court found in this case. The court knows we have significant concerns, we dont think she applied to test at all but put that aside. What the District Court found was the house of representatives was acting preliminary ....
What do you remember about what happened and how all of this transpired over the next month . Alexis the senate trial was fascinating because of the idea that it is called a trial, but it is not a legal proceeding and is at its heart very political. But it had so many interesting, dynamic characters involved in it. Robert byrd, senator byrd of west virginia, a stalwart constitutional scholar and 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 that this should not even have happened, that the trial was misguided. He even told his colleagues that he was going to introduce a motion to dismiss the whole thing. Different senators played different roles. The house managers were fascinating to listen to. The president s legal team was really interesting. He had a strong array of legal representation there. And he also tried to sort of, what would you say, to try to add, to put some english on the ball. His legalen ....