I am less sanguine than @YAppelbaum about the practical benefits of impeachment, but I think it's right that not only is now the time, now has been the time for quite a while https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/03/impeachment-trump/580468/ …
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On a certain level, focusing too much on the utilitarian benefits of impeachment (the direction the Democratic leadership seems to be leaning ) seems to me to risk missing the point. Part of impeachment is marking the magnitude of the breach committed.
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agreed—I can make a case for impeachment prior to that, but the firing was an inflection point
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What are your positions about possible criminal prosecutions after a successful impeachment or even just a different Pres after 2020? Can't really be overseen by a Dem president's AG. Unclear to me how to not make that be perceived as prosecution of enemy.
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Seems pretty likely that the answer to both is "duh obviously", but I completely agree that the abuse-of-office one is more clear cut.
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But it's not clear to me that there's still going to be a special counsel by 2021. And if - which seems exceedingly likely - the special counsel decides Trump can't be prosecuted while in office, there'll not be a pre-existing special counsel to do so.
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