![]() Ultimately, the Senate voted 57 to 43 to convict Trump, failing to reach the supermajority required. “I honestly think I didn’t make that much of a difference, because the President did it all himself.” The attempt to steal the election and become a tyrant was played out in real time in front of the entire world,” he said. Tribe said Trump’s actions at the center of the second impeachment trial were more clear-cut than those in the first impeachment. “Anybody with half a brain could realize that what we had was a president who refused to leave office and would do anything he could - legal or illegal - to pressure people into creating the false impression that he had somehow won,” Tribe said. While Tribe said his contributions to Trump’s first impeachment trial - on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress in early 2020 - mainly consisted of simplifying “intricate and complicated” legal issues, he said there were “no such problems” during the second trial. “Larry was extraordinarily helpful in advising the House managers and their staff as we formulated a strategy that would keep the President’s conduct front and center, and that would knock away the entirely meritless legal excuses that he tried to put forward in an effort to escape accountability.” “Larry is the kind of thinker who can cut through 30 complicated issues simultaneously without breaking a sweat,” Matz said. ![]() Matz said the House’s legal team benefited from Tribe’s constitutional expertise, particularly relating to claims of jurisdiction, the First Amendment, and due process, which the opposition frequently brought up. In interviews with The Crimson, Raskin, Matz, and Tribe reflected on their experiences coming together for the historic trial and on its legacy in an increasingly polarized country. 6 insurrection at the Capitol that left five dead. Trump on the charge of inciting an insurrection, following the Jan. Together, they helped craft the House’s legal strategy for the second impeachment trial of former President Donald J. Matz, whom he recruited as a head teaching fellow and with whom he later co-authored two books.Īt the beginning of 2021, the three Law School alums reconvened to take part in a defining moment in the history of the United States: Raskin as lead House impeachment manager Matz as impeachment counsel and “the backbone of the legal efforts behind both impeachments,” per Tribe and Tribe as their consultant and one of the foremost minds in the United States on constitutional law. More than two decades later, Tribe also taught Joshua A. Tribe ’62, where Raskin met his future wife and decided to dedicate his life to constitutional law. ![]() Jamin Ben “Jamie” Raskin ’83 (D-Md.) took a constitutional law class taught by Harvard Law School professor Laurence H.
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