Trump Impeachment II

Can The Senate Try An Ex-President?

NPR's Nina Totenberg talks to several law professors about the question of whether the Senate can try Donald Trump once he leaves office on January 20 in this piece from Morning Edition. 

5 min, transcript available.

Impeachment on NPR

You might already be tired of hearing about impeachment, but in case you are not, here are some stories, short and long, that might help you understand what is going on in Washington. A short presentation can be found here (Your Senate Impeachment Trial Questions) 4 min 15 sec; a long presentation of the history of impeachments can be found here (Presidential Historians On What They're Watching For During The Senate Impeachment Trial) 46 min.
Nina Totenberg describes the role of the Chief Justice in an impeachment trial here. 6 min, 25 sec.
NPR's complete coverage of the impeachment can be found here.

More Latin in the Impeachment Controversy

Much of the controversy about President Trump's interaction with the Ukraine government involves the Latin expression quid pro quo. NPR's Rachel Martin explains here the history of the term and offers some synonyms. 6 min. 54 sec.

Subpoenas

On NPR's All Things Considered, legal affairs correspondent, Nina Totenberg, explains the fight in courts over subpoenas to produce Trump's financial records, and more broadly the President's position on immunity while in office. Her explanation can be found here. 4 min. 26 sec. transcript available.
A subpoena is an order by a judge (or a committee of Congress) to appear in court (or before a committee) to give information or to provide documents containing information. If the reason of the subpoena is to obtain documents, the proper legal terminology is a subpoena duces tecum. A lot of Latin for today's world.

Impeachment

The Washington Post has a good, short (4 min. 32 sec. ) presentation, or road map, about impeachment under the U.S. constitution. No transcript, but subtitles, unfortunately a bit out of sync, can be put on.

What Does It Take To Impeach A U.S. President?

NPR's Ron Elving explains here the procedure by which the House of Representative and the U.S. Senate remove a sitting president. 5 min 13 sec, no transcript but lots of text on the slides.