The Good Fight Channeled Schoolhouse Rock to Explain How Trump Could Get Impeached

Animated musical short in this week’s episode provides step-by-step primer

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After devoting this week’s The Good Fight to a storyline in which the firm’s lawyers debate possible methods of impeaching President Trump this fall, the show’s creators ended the episode with a Schoolhouse Rock-style animated musical short that explains the process under which President Trump—or any commander-in-chief—can be removed from office.

For their Good Wife spinoff, co-creators and showrunners Robert and Michelle King tapped Jonathan Coulton to write the song in the style of the entertaining-yet-educational Schoolhouse Rock shorts that aired as interstitials during ABC’s Saturday morning cartoon lineup in the ’70s and ’80s.

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