1/10. Why does Senator McConnell talk about how he will run the impeachment trial, and why do we listen? He has zero constitutional authority to decide its shape.
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4/10. The impeachment trial is a trial and the senators are all sworn jurors. No special role is foreseen in the Constitution for any specific senator.
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5/10. When you are a juror, you set aside your normal concerns and swear to be impartial. If you are a juror your obligation is to try a case, not advance your interests. The same is true of senators acting as jurors.
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6/10. Senators in an impeachment trial therefore have an exclusively legal responsibility, just as any citizen serving as a juror in a trial would.
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7/10. If we treat the impeachment trial as anything but a trial, we disregard the Constitution and endanger the rule of law and the Republic.
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8/10. If senators say that they regard an impeachment trial as political rather than legal, they have disqualified themselves as jurors.
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9/10. If senators reveal how they will vote before the impeachment trial has taken place, they have disqualified themselves as jurors.
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10/10. Senator McConnell has no constitutional authority to lead an impeachment trial. His constitutional responsibility is to serve as a juror. From that he has disqualified himself.
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If they have ethics
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The designation as “jurors” seems misguided: https://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/01/15/impeachment.objection/ …
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@senatemajldr and@LindseyGrahamSC need to recused from voting on impeachment based on their own statements. -
By that same analysis, Sanders, Warren, Harris, Booker et al would be excluded.
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"Impartial" - yeah, that'll happen when hell freezes over.
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