What You Need to
Know About Wednesday's Impeachment Inquiry Hearing
Leah Barkoukis
Posted: Dec 04, 2019 7:30 AM
Source: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite
Now that the House Intelligence Committee has voted to
approve its report in a partisan vote, claiming the evidence supporting
President Trump’s misconduct and obstruction of justice is “overwhelming,” the
300-page document will now go to the House Judiciary Committee.
The committee will be tasked with drafting potential
articles of impeachment.
Wednesday’s hearing, which will begin at 10 a.m. EST,
will feature a panel of four constitutional law professors: Noah Feldman of
Harvard University, Pamela Karlan of Stanford University, Michael Gerhardt of
the University of North Carolina and Jonathan Turley of George Washington
University.
All of them except Turley are Democrats.
These legal scholars will answer questions from lawmakers
to "explain the scope of that constitutional standard of
impeachment."
"Our first task is to explore the framework put in
place to respond to serious allegations of impeachable misconduct like those
against President Trump," said Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y.,
when he announced the hearing.
After opening statements from Nadler and Collins, the law
professors will be sworn in and given 10 minutes each for an opening statement,
after which questioning will begin.
Wednesday's hearing is expected to mirror the format used
by the House Intelligence Committee last month. The proceedings start with a 45
minute period for the Democrats, most likely led by Judiciary Committee counsel
Norm Eisen. Republicans will then get 45 minutes.
Then, the hearing will go to five-minute rounds for each
of the 41 members. The five-minute round alone should consume three hours and
25 minutes. (Fox News)
The top Republican on the committee, Rep. Doug Collins of
Georgia, criticized the hearing in a letter to Nadler on Monday.
"This ad hoc, poorly executed 'impeachment inquiry'
will provide the Senate with ample justification for expeditiously disposing of
it," he wrote.
"As Republicans have stated before, and consistent
with Chairman Schiff’s repeated statements, withholding information from the
minority shall constitute evidence of your denial of fundamental fairness and
due process, as well as obstruction of minority rights," Collins
added.
Under the House-passed rules, the president's counsel
could take part in the Judiciary Committee's hearing, but the White House said
on Sunday they would
not participate in the “baseless” and “partisan” inquiry.
President Trump, who's in London for a NATO summit,
blasted the hearing.
"They get three constitutional lawyers ... and we
get one," Trump said. "That's not sounding too good, and that's the
way it is. We don't get a lawyer, we don't get any witnesses -- we want Biden,
we want the son Hunter, where's Hunter? We want Schiff. We want to interview
these people. Well, they said no. We can't do it."
The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous
Academics in America
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The
Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in
America is a 2006 book by conservative
American author and policy advocate David Horowitz.
Contending that many academics in American colleges hold anti-American
perspectives, Horowitz lists one hundred examples who he believes are
sympathetic to terrorists and non-democratic governments.
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