Well, the GQP is the party of “law and order” – their laws and their order.
The rest of the US can go stuff itself.
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Couldn’t Leahy bar them from the vote, seeing that they have flagrantly violated their oath to carry out their duty without bias?
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In a criminal trial your words might be ‘jury tampering’.
In any case those mofos should recuse themselves.
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Co conspirators gonna conspire.
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The enemy is in the room.
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@jpc “The Republican Party died and is now a zombie tribe.”
Are you suggesting a new mascot for the GQParty?
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They are getting their stories ‘straight’.
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Justice in the USA…
‘Your Honor, can I have a private word with the jury?’
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An impeachment trial is not a court-room proceeding but an openly political one, so …
When asked if meeting with senators during the trial was appropriate, Schoen asserted that he believed it was “the practice of impeachment.”
Me, I would have been embarrassed to even think of doing it but there is no rule against it.
And yet:
Not a bad idea – but probably even this small step is too much for our hide-bound* Senate.
*There’s that word hide again.
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Known tainted jurors still get a vote? Ain’t the America I know. Time to kick the Lawfare approach up to 85% strength.
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They need to be disqualified from voting on conviction
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It’s kinda like the Blue Lives Matter movement.
Until the police aren’t on your side of the dispute - then it’s ok to harm them or worse.
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Sedition apologists are traitors and accomplices in Trump crimes.
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So Rubio wasn’t part of the huddle, I take it…
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Wait, you’re surprised the leopard is eating your face?
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IOKIYAR
The eternal and unchanging principle which won’t stop until they lose, a lot, and for a long time.
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And their re-elections depend upon this. They know their seats are reliably red. Graham doesn’t even have to run again for five more years. He’s so safe, he’ll never take a hit.
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If I were in their position, I’d want to know whether Trump’s lawyers are going to concede on jurisdiction merely because fifty-six senators voted that they should.
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Or just not show up when the vote is taken.
You know, that’s an out that should be explored. The vote is contingent on how many Senators are in the chamber at the time of the vote; not how many Senators are in the Senate.
So if only 96 show up, the required margin for conviction drops.
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The only thing mildly surprising about this is Lee. Not that he’s not a Trumper but that he has seemed to show a little more discretion in keeping out of this story.
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