Everything You Want to Know About Impeachment

The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 15, 2017

Barbara Ann Radnofsky, Houston-based attorney and the author of A Citizen's Guide to Impeachment (Melville House, 2017), digs deep into the history of uses of impeachment to remove government officials. 

According to Radnofsky, the Founding Fathers intended impeachment "to be for conflicts of interest. They worried that, no matter how wealthy the president was, the president would betray trust to a foreign party."

 

 

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