Stanford Law professor Pamela Karlan used an analogy involving a disaster in Texas to break down why she thinks Trump should be impeached

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• An expert witnesses in Wednesday's impeachment hearing employed an analogy about a hypothetical disaster in Texas or Louisiana to explain why President Donald Trump should be impeached. 
• Pamela Karlan, a Stanford law professor, asked what people would think if a president withheld congressionally-approved aid from a state facing a disaster in exchange for its governor branding his political opponent a criminal. 
• Trump in July urged Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to launch investigations into former Vice President Joe Biden and a bogus conspiracy theory about Ukraine interfering in the 2016 election. 
• At the time, Trump had put on hold millions in congressionally-approved military aid to Ukraine, which is contending with an ongoing, bloody war against pro-Russian separatists. 
• Karlan was one of three expert witnesses on Wednesday who said Trump should be impeached.
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Pamela Karlan, a Stanford law professor, employed an analogy about a hypothetical disaster in a US state like Texas or Louisiana to explain why she believes President Donald Trump's conduct in his dealings with Ukraine is worthy of impeachment. 

Serving as one of several expert witnesses in the first public impeachment hearing in the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, Karlan said: 

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