How many constitutional and institutional norms are going to be run over [by democrats] in the age of Trump?
No need to be a constitutional scholar to understand that the primary purpose of impeachment is removal from office. Otherwise, what’s the point? Impeachment becomes a censure vote with a ribbon tied around it.
That’s what Impeachment 1.0 was—a House censure vote with a ribbon tied around it. It was barely mentioned by the Biden campaign because by then it didn’t mean anything. What if you whiff on a Senate conviction *twice* on the same President?
I’ve said this before: Democrats clearly can’t help themselves, but they are going to run afoul with moderates with this impeachment push. There’s no point in it. Trump is out of office in 48 hours. Not all voters loathe Trump and you never know, you might even need a few disaffected Trump voters in the midterms. I have a strong hunch you’re going to need more than a few. This is NOT the way to get them.
Good point, but it has been done before, with Judges, State and Federal, largely to insure they would never hold office as a Judge again. The same idea would apply to Trump, to ban him prematurely from ever again running for office. Awful precedents have been set by both sides over rate last few decades, don’t recall Jonathan offering views on Mitch making the SCOTUS simply a majority vote
I do believe part of the strategy was to get Trump to resign, like Nixon, seeing the possibility existed he may be found guilty in the Senate. And if you believe Trump was guilty of insurrection, knowing you don’t, but many do, holding him responsible is logical regardless of how it plays out in the future