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Professors Berkman and Nelson Discuss Impeachment on Democracy Works Podcast

Professors Berkman and Nelson Discuss Impeachment on Democracy Works Podcast

Michael Berkman, director of the McCourtney Institute for Democracy and professor of political science, and Michael Nelson, Jeffrey L. Hyde and Sharon D. Hyde and Political Science Board of Visitors Early Career Professor in Political Science, discuss the constitutional framework for impeachment and what the Framers had in mind when they set it up. They also discuss how impeachment is a unique cooperation between the three branches of government, where the inquiry launched last week against President Trump is likely to go, and what it all means for our democracy.

 

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