Thread It’s true that GOP Senators putting party ahead of country, the rule of law, security of American elections against foreign influence, inter-branch accountability, & basic integrity are basically the Founders’ nightmare, violating their core sense of virtue in office. But.
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*and* when the parties were still in their Jim-Crow-based cross-cutting ideological muddle— a situation unlikely to be repeated and based on conditions we wouldn’t *want* to see repeated. 7
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The Nixon case fooled us into thinking the impeachment procedure wasn’t basically broken, if only we had virtuous heroes in the Senate in the Goldwater mode... and so we get disappointed in the Lamar!s of the world for not living up to the Founders’ ideals. 8
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But that’s just not going to be a reliable mechanism for executive accountability in a world of parties. We need to think about what such a mechanism could be. /fun
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Ahem. "/fin." I don't need a special notation to mark the end of fun; I just need to be my usual spoilsport self.
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Note: the value of impeachment has been valued for the Nixon case which A. Never was complete with his resignation B. Was a unique confluence of events as you point out.
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Here is where the stupid OLC opinion about prosecuting a sitting president needs to be removed. We need to pass a law specifically saying he can be. I have faith in jurors and a judicial system I have no faith in the GOP at this point in time.
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