“Andrew Johnson Was a Lot Like Trump”: Echoes of 1868 in Trump’s Impeachment Trial

After a nearly 13-hour marathon session, the U.S. Senate approved by a party-line vote the rules for the impeachment trial of President Trump. This marks just the third presidential impeachment trial in U.S. history. The Senate trial comes a month after the House impeached Trump for pressuring Ukraine to investigate his political rival Joe Biden. Under the rules, each side will be given 24 hours over a three-day period for opening arguments. Senators also agreed to automatically admit evidence from the House inquiry into the trial record. Republicans rejected 11 amendments from Democrats to subpoena witnesses and documents at this stage in the trial. Democrats were attempting to subpoena documents from the White House, the State Department and the Office of Management and Budget. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer spoke early on Tuesday laying out the Democrats’ case for impeachment. “President Trump is accused of coercing a foreign leader into interfering in our elections to benefit himself, and then doing everything in his power to cover it up,” Schumer said. “If proved, the president’s actions are crimes against democracy itself. It’s hard to imagine a greater subversion of our democracy than for powers outside our borders to determine the elections from within.” For more, we speak with Manisha Sinha, professor of American history at the University of Connecticut and author of “The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition.”
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[@ez-8238]

Who says people can't be reincarnated. Say hello to 'andrew Johnson 2.0'

[@ruffadamsthegreat.2662]

Nah, 45 is the Antichrist.💯

[@markedwardspezenosky5814]

Lmao I love it! Johnson 2.o

[@markedwardspezenosky5814]

Where going to party like it's 1868!!Trump dancing the Trump bump pump... if you've actually seen this hilarious cartoon it fits him so well

[@StephenLewisful]

Country Over Executive Privilege! The Senate is on Trial.

[@jjeshop]

That's just a bluff. They'd actually have to name the evidence they're covering with privilege. To do that, they have to submit documents. They haven't, and won't. The president is clearly guilty.

[@amyjones2490]

Why cant the Chief Justice insist on witnesses and documents?

[@Hughster49]

Amy Jones The Democrats could have called all of the witnesses they wanted in the House!

[@GregoryWonderwheel]

The Chief Justice conducts the trial but doesn't write the rules. Once the trial rules are established, then the CJ applies them. The Chief Justice will be able to set some rules as interpretations to fill in gaps.

[@tomitstube]

@@Hughster49 trump has blocked white house witnesses, and new facts have emerged. republicans are covering up trump's crimes.

[@jacknordby1468]

Looks to me like our conservative chief justice is avoiding being put on the spot by deferring to the Senate majority. Thus, a show trial, to make most of the people think justice will be done.

[@ruffadamsthegreat.2662]

I think he can, no?

[@paddybrennan3644]

America is watching you the Senate

[@ez-8238]

Every republican in the senate is spiting in the face of the American people. They all voted no to every witness the democrats wanted.

[@GregoryWonderwheel]

Do you imagine this hyperpartisan impeachment will have any different outcome than the hyperpartisan impeachment of President Clinton? The Democrats voted to not impeach and have kept Clinton in high regard ever since. The Republicans will do the same with Trump. I would say the Democrats are delusional to see it any other way if they think they have proved their case and people will revile Trump because of their failed impeachment.

[@connormcgregor4578]

this impeachment is only hyperpartisan because all the GOP senators are fucking traitors

[@harryedwards851]

This is a good news channel

[@JBanks333]

YAZ/INDEED AMY/JUAN BEEN ON THEIR A GAME FOR MANY YEARS/NO EHFN EMMY 😏😏😏

[@redjirachi1]

Comparing Trump to Andrew Johnson is insulting...to Trump. And I'm someone who hates him!

[@Endgame707]

Andrew Johnson Was European 🇪🇺

[@rukhsanamirza4679]

now I hate lawyers more than ever....these lawyers should be on trial.

[@christineroger9387]

You guys are great , thank you both.

[@Red-xg2ym]

Both were terrible.

[@BillCherryjr]

Not even close. Wow.

[@plantsntrance5513]

Manisha is a wealth of knowledge :) i could listen to her all day!

[@MsBurningheaven]

Up yours Jay Sekulow

[@topixfromthetropix1674]

Archie Bunker was a lot like Trump.

[@jaswmclark]

Probably better than Trunmp

[@jjeshop]

NEVER FORGET: Biggie Smalls was quoted during the impeachment of Donald J. Trump.

[@timothy8766]

Cut the check

[@marietellez6021]

I love Democracy Now!!!

[@v.britton4445]

Republicans would be pitiful, but they are too malignant for pity.

[@cherylbarger5042]

They are all on the same team people. And its not the team of the people.

[@SpecialSP]

Cheryl Barger In this case, Republicans are on Team tRump* only, to protect him. "The People" are the Americans who want tRump* held accountable for his crimes.

[@Anti-CornLawLeague]

I could tell she wanted to say this but was cut off, but actually, Andrew Johnson didn't run again in the 1868 election. Horatio Seymour was the 1868 Democratic Party presidential nominee.

[@matthewmckenzie7318]

"Bought his way into the Senate".... sounds very familiar to politics today -___-

[@EmmittBrownBTTF1]

I'm no lawyer, but executive privilege is where the president may have privileged communication under some circumstances it is not absolute, and the judical or legistlative branch can provide a showing, it may be pierced. It does not mean ultimate power - the power of a monarch - the very thing the founders feared most. Seculo, pettifogging? Absitively!! [corrected: original cited power of executive orders, oops]

[@Hughster49]

EmmittBrownBTTF1 You’re right, you’re no lawyer!

[@EmmittBrownBTTF1]

@@Hughster49 Have you read the transcript? I have. The constitution, it too is worth reading it informs executive privilege through separation of powers. Scotus has ruled it may be used under certain circumstances and can be outweighed if the branch seeking documents can provide a showing to the merit of the release of documents. It's about privileged communication - not absolute power. The whistleblower testimony provided the showing.

[@GregoryWonderwheel]

Every president, including Clinton and Obama, has made spurious claims of executive privilege. It goes with the job to claim more privilege than is called for.

[@GregoryWonderwheel]

@Thrunabulax No, but it is irrelevant. Mpst laws not in the Constitution.

[@GregoryWonderwheel]

@@EmmittBrownBTTF1 What "transcript"? There is no transcript that I know of. Are you referring to the Memorandum of Telephone Communication that says at the bottom of the page "This is not a transcript."?

[@davidrodriguez9562]

Jay Sekulow needs a tissue... He's melting.

[@HHIto]

He negated Lincoln's legacy; he's in Hell now, writing his memoirs.

[@yukfu8665]

Wait, the US got a news format to take serious besides the C-SPAN stuff? Subbed.

[@SpecialSP]

Yuk Fu They've been around for decades.

[@Infinitybein]

Thanks for self correcting Amy. 9:58 Free Slaves to free enslaved people. Take it a step further and get accurate next time Amy....Freed enslaved Africans

[@davidjordan4456]

Democracy is majority rule we need to protect the week and underrepresented. Constitutional Republic Now!

[@michaelmaddox2536]

We have the right to choose our president if we aren't a convicted felon, or of the person running isn't a criminal... It is indeed a sacred right but also a privilege.

[@TDonovanHead]

Grant beat Horatio Seymour (not Johnson) in 1868. Johnson was never elected as president- only Vice President.

[@leahdubuc]

post january 6th this hits especially hard

[@marrz8244]

WoW

[@ruffadamsthegreat.2662]

Nadler said "OR this other nonsense..." Not, "and other nonsense". Big difference.

[@xelefonte]

*Manisha Sinha is so incredibly well-verses on Andrew Johnson’s presidential term. Is there anybody in America that understands it better than her? It’s almost as if she lived during his term (which of course is not possible). But I’m impressed with how educated and studious she is on this matter. What an excellent guest Democracy Now chose to bring on!*

[@wolvesprowl1]

lol.....still no evidence

[@mplaw77]

Intersectionality is a theoretical framework for understanding how aspects of one's social and political identities (e.g., gender, race, class, sexuality, disability, etc.) might combine to create unique modes of discrimination. It aims to broaden the agenda of the first waves of feminism, which largely focused on the experiences of white, middle class women. The broad agenda means that intersectionality is used to find combinations of injustices that are felt by members of society. Alan Dershowitz, scholar of United States constitutional law and criminal law in answering a question on the criticism of Israel by intersectional movements, he stated that the concept of intersectionality is an oversimplification of reality that makes LGBT activists stand in solidarity with advocates of Sharia, even though Islamic law denies the rights of the former. He feels that identity politics does not evaluate ideas or individuals on the basis of the quality of their character. Dershowitz argues that in academia, intersectionality is taught with a large influence from antisemitism. He states that Jews are actually more liberal and supportive of equal rights than many other religious sects.[83] Writer and political pro-Israel activist Chloé Valdary considers intersectionality "a rigid system for determining who is virtuous and who is not, based on traits like skin color, gender, and financial status". Valdary also states: Intersectionality's greatest flaw is in reducing human beings to political abstractions, which is never a tendency that turns out well-in part because it so severely flattens our complex human experience, and therefore fails to adequately describe reality. As it turns out, one can be personally successful and still come from a historically oppressed community-or vice versa. The human experience is complex and multifaceted and deeper than the superficial ways in which intersectionalists describe it.[84] As zealotry Conservative political commentator Andrew Sullivan argues that the practice of intersectionality "manifests itself almost as a religion. It posits a classic orthodoxy through which all of human experience is explained-and through which all speech must be filtered."[85] David A. French, writer for the National Review, states that proponents of intersectionality are "zealots of a new religious faith" intending to fill a "religion-shaped hole in the human heart".[86] wiki Intersectionality studies seeks power without responsibility - the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages. Harlot? Middle English (denoting a vagabond or beggar, later a lecherous man or woman): from Old French harlot, herlot ‘young man, knave, vagabond’.

[@joannahampton3808]

What's only water or milk about? Caffeine is the only way to stay awake during this!

[@aido92]

Supreme Court jurisprudence is not the same as the constitution, Jay Sekulow, as you well know.

[@BooBoo-pu1jh]

Keep America Great!!!!

[@joshuaherpolsheimer4699]

Keep America great by lieing

[@GregoryWonderwheel]

Can you define "great"? The definition of "great" is what divides Americans. Some people define "great" as being a global empire. I don't. I define "great" as being honest, and the American Empire is the antithesis of honest.

[@charleskeefer9030]

Eat more birds. A pen can make of feather since laundry can singer.

[@charleskeefer3043]

First wanted poster for the popular shave during the Othello and Canterbury decisions that not knew how Monticello from weeping willow vineyard.

[@xanderjames6510]

Oh, it's definitely nonsense!

[@bulldogmadhav5762]

Imo Johnson was worse but his impeachment was done quite sloppily and the case wasn’t technically constitutional.

[@letaureau3622]

More like Satan has reincarnated & he's on a mission .

[@satanlover134]

2:09 seriousely, this? Not consentration camps??

[@marietellez6021]

Democrats are the best in This Donald Trump trial

[@Jason-S]

Maru telléz love your optimism but all signs point to a re-election thanks to the nut-job dems and dems in congress.

[@GregoryWonderwheel]

This is such a silly comment based on having no knowledge of the 1998 impeachment of Clinton. Both parties have taken a 180 degree opposite position between then and now, and they act as if there is no irony in doing so. A pox on both houses.

[@scasey1960]

Spin on US reconstruction - cherry picking anecdotes

[@freethinker2324]

Either of you have actual facts to back up your assertion.... what was omitted pertaining to Johnson and reconstruction?

[@LibertyDoctrine]

let's see Hunter Biden on trial

[@dawnpalmby5100]

For what, nepotism?

[@FuriousGeezer]

Outrage as fake as the news

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[@cryptkeeper08]

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[@rifflezuccure1315]

TRUMP!!! 20/20!!!

[@paddybrennan3644]

RIFFLE ZUCCURE So you want a autocrat To run a country so you want the deregulation of everything we have put in place for 50 years is the EPA which looks after our water the air pollution so you want to privatize everything healthcare food stamps elderly care because that’s what you are going to get with Trump in 2020

[@synapticdecay5845]

PATRICK BRENNAN It’s more than that and the face of America would be ass ugly. It’s just not only EPA regulations that’s being shredded. Take a look a consumer protection, fiduciary rule, FDA, USDA, labor laws, the face of justice, human services, healthcare, privacy, religious persecution of a certain group, right to seek asylum, and the burning of the Constitution.

[@rifflezuccure1315]

I WANT HIM TO KEEP! HIS HOLD!! ON THE ILLEGAL'S!! ALIENS!! BEFORE THE DIXIECRATS!!! LET THEM TAKE OVER THE COUNTRY!!!

[@rifflezuccure1315]

NO YOU ILLEGAL !!!! FUCKER I SAY IT TO YOU ILLEGAL!!!!FILTHY!!!!!! BASTARDS !!! !!!! FACE"S !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@larajones1424]

RIFFLE ZUCCURE Calm down. Take a deep breath. Troll elsewhere.