🏛️ The Glitched Gavel S01E10: The House vs. The President (The Impeachment Trial of Andrew Johnson)

Gavel (The Narrator/Prosecutor): "Washington D.C., 1868. The nation was still reeling from the Civil War, and the battle lines had simply moved from the battlefield to the Senate floor. This week, we cover the first-ever impeachment trial of a U.S. President: Andrew Johnson. Accused of high crimes and misdemeanors, Johnson stood before the Senate, facing a furious Republican Congress determined to punish him for obstructing Reconstruction and defying the will of the legislature." (The sound of a large, ticking clock is amplified, accelerating rapidly before failing with a corrupted electronic buzz.)

Static (The Analyst/Defense): "The core charge was his violation of the ...