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Senior Writer @NRO. Reaganite, Catholic, Mets fan, ex-lawyer. Opinions 100% my own, but you can share them. Not the Cardinals broadcaster.

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    1. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 31 Jan 2020

      Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Larry Sabato

      Actually, the Constitution says very explicitly that the Senate gets to decide whether to remove the president.https://twitter.com/LarrySabato/status/1223231986988281862 …

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      Larry SabatoVerified account @LarrySabato
      January 31, 2020: Britain withdraws from Europe and America withdraws from the Constitution.
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    2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 31 Jan 2020

      I would have liked to hear Bolton testify, but the House can still subpoena him just as well as the Senate can. Trial witnesses are there for one purpose only: to help the Senators decide. If enough of them have already decided, there is no purpose to calling them.

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    3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 31 Jan 2020

      This is a replay of the "have a hearing for Merrick Garland even though you're already not going to confirm him" argument. There's no purpose to the thing once the outcome is already certain.

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    4. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 31 Jan 2020

      Congressional hearings can serve purposes besides legislative decisions, of course. They can also be used to expose malfeasance to create public political pressure. But you can still hold hearings! An impeachment trial serves a more specific function.

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    5. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 31 Jan 2020

      If the House thinks new testimony would support new articles of impeachment, it can do that too! It may not be the best politics, but if you think more testimony would persuade the public, then that step is available.

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    6. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 31 Jan 2020

      Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Noah Rothman

      There is indeed always the risk that doing what you believe is the right thing today will look indefensible later. Comes with the territory with Trump.https://twitter.com/NoahCRothman/status/1223324808424771584 …

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      For Rs, there are prudential political considerations they're passing up. There was never going to be a FOIA request that turns up information in Oct 2016 that showed why Garland should have been confirmed. Not necessarily the case here.
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      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 31 Jan 2020

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      They have every right to do this. It would, however, be an admission politically that they mishandled the original process https://twitter.com/EWErickson/status/1223326568589746177 …

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        1. Neil Stevens‏ @presjpolk 31 Jan 2020
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          And they're incapable of putting country ahead of their own partisan political interests.

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        1. Marco Paradiso‏ @ParadisoReale 31 Jan 2020
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          they lost nothing by doing what they did. they got the GOP to expose themselves prior to the election. and now they can go back and take their time.

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        1. CivilityIsAChoice‏ @CreateCivility 31 Jan 2020
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          And, duh. They were being told all along, at every step in the House hearings/inquiry that they were mishandling it. They. Didn't. Care.

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        2. Krankenbrüder‏ @CrankLawyer 31 Jan 2020
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          Mishandling the process is refusing to hear relevant evidence. If the choices are the House hears it or nobody does because the Senate refuses to hear witnesses, then the House must.

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        3. Michael Karnes‏ @karndogs 1 Feb 2020
          Replying to @CrankLawyer @baseballcrank

          They House should have done a better job the first time. This was all about political theater and nothing else.

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        1. Danny Jones‏ @dancjones32 31 Jan 2020
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          Then why didn’t they expedite the subpoena for Bolton when the house was doing the impeachment instead of rushing through it because “it was urgent “?

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        2. Aron Roberts‏ @aronro 31 Jan 2020
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          That's fine. Let's get this right. Even if the tactical-level politics of the original process were mishandled, there's merit - to helping most of a divided citizenry feel truth was adequately sought - in pursuing this thing to its conclusion.

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        3. soncharm‏ @soncharm 31 Jan 2020
          Replying to @aronro @baseballcrank

          Can you sincerely paint resuscitating an impeachment about the same exact thing as about assuaging a ‘divided citizenry’? Or just getting the outcome you prefer? What about those of us citizens who are sick of hearing about this whole stupid Ukraine thing? We keep being tortured?

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        1. Stephen Cook‏ @SteveCookCookie 31 Jan 2020
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          That’s dumb.

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        1. Michael Karnes‏ @karndogs 1 Feb 2020
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          It would be political suicide, imo.

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