Impeachment Then and Now: How Inquiries Evolved from Nixon to Clinton to Trump
Thursday, 14 Nov 2019 at 8:15 pm – Great Hall
The US House of Representatives is currently holding hearing and depositions in a formal impeachment inquiry of President Trump. How is this different from the impeachment processes of Nixon and Clinton? Join three political experts to discuss impeachment—what it means, how it works, and how it has evolved as a process from Nixon to Clinton to Trump. Former Iowa Congressman Ed Mezvinsky sat on the House Judiciary Committee that voted to impeach President Nixon. Iowa State University Senior Lecturer and attorney Dirk Deam is an expert on American politics and the US constitution. Karen Kedrowski is the director of the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics and professor of Political Science at Iowa State. She too is an expert on American politics. National Affairs SeriesCosponsored By:
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