Impeachment hearings: law professor Pamela Karlan had no patience for Rep. Doug Collins's insults

Source: vox.com





Republicans tried to turn House Judiciary’s first impeachment hearing into a sideshow, but Karlan wasn’t having it.

By Aaron Rupar@atrupar Dec 4, 2019, 12:00pm EST


During the first House Judiciary Committee impeachment hearing on Wednesday, Republicans led by ranking member Doug Collins made it clear almost immediately that their strategy would be to interrupt the proceedings at every available opportunity and dismiss testimony from a panel of law professors as meaningless.

But during her opening statement, one of those law professors — Pamela Karlan, a Stanford law professor and appellate attorney — made clear that she had little patience for Collins’s tactics in particular.

“Here Mr. Collins I would like to say to you, sir, that I read transcripts of every one of the witnesses who appeared in the live hearing because I would not speak about these things without reviewing the facts,” she said. “So I’m insulted by the suggestion that as a law professor I don’t care about those facts.”

Karlan was responding to comments Collins made in his opening statement, including this shot at her profession:


America will see why most people don’t go to law school. No offense to our professors. But please, really, we’re bringing you in here today to testify on stuff most of you have already written about, all four, for the opinions that we already know out of the classrooms that maybe you’re getting ready for finals in, to discuss things that you probably haven’t had a chance — unless you’re really good on TV of watching the hearings over the last couple of weeks, you couldn’t have possibly actually digested the Adam Schiff report from yesterday or the Republican response in any real way.


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Read more: https://www.vox.com/2019/12/4/20995296/pamela-karlan-doug-collins-impeachment-hearing-house-judiciary

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Collings is replacing stupid jerk Devin Nunes today. Birds of a
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Stanford University Professor Pamela Karlan speaking into a microphone at the House Judiciary Committee hearing on impeachment.
Pamela Karlan of Stanford University testified before the House Judiciary Committee on December 4, 2019. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images