A root confusion Trump's lawyers are trying to exploit is between a legal trial and a political trial. Impeachment is a political trial but they keep insisting on using the procedures of a criminal or civil legal trial, which don't apply.https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1360611122294972417 …
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It's true that they are not according to Senate rules, but it's fine for Trump's lawyers that they should be. According to the Constitution, the Senate technically doesn't even have to allow the president to present a defense. But I think most people would find that dubious.
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It's just odd to argue that even though the Framers described the Senate as "trying" the "case," and that a 2/3 vote of the Senate would "convict" the president, they didn't intend any analogy to criminal trials.
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The definition of crime in the Constitution for impeachment is not the same as a legal trial. Federalist No. 65 (Alexander Hamilton) says that impeachable offenses “proceed from the misconduct of public men … from the abuse or violation of some public trust.” 1/
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Again, this has nothing to do with the definition of "crime." It has to do with the question of how the alleged crimes for which the president has been impeached should be adjudicated.
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