If you get indicted but not convicted we say you have been found not guilty. If you get impeached but acquitted in the Senate we say you got impeached. Seems wrong.
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1) By technicality, I mean that McConnell agreed that Trump did what he was accused of doing--which was itself the greatest attack on our Constitution and American democracy since the Civil War.
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2) And most Constitutional scholars seem to disagree with the jurisdictional "technicality" that McConnell found to let Trump off the hook.
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Article 1 Section 3: "The Senate shall have sole Power to try all Impeachments." "all impeachments" it's not even ambiguous
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Most Constitutional scholars agree with that. It takes a strained reading of the Constitution to justify the January exception.
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He didn't have any fight left in him, I guess...
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Apparently to the Fascist Party it is.
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I typed out an 8-tweet thread in response to your question, but I think this letter signed by over 120 Constitutional scholars might carry a bit more weight than my thread. https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000177-2646-de27-a5f7-3fe714ac0000 …
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The constitutional question had been settled. McConnell and other Senators who voted to acquit in defiance of the ruling were exercising jury nullification.
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Depends which party you belong to and what your trying to do...
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