Watch Romney’s speech announcing he is the first senator in American history to cast a vote to convict a president from his own party in an impeachment trial.
“The allegations made in the articles of impeachment are very serious. As a senator-juror, I swore an oath before God to exercise impartial justice. I am profoundly religious. My faith is at the heart of who I am,” Romney said, his voice breaking on the Senate floor as it looked as though he was on the verge of tears. “I take an oath before God as enormously consequential.
In announcing his decision, Romney dismissed the arguments of the president’s legal defense team that his fellow Republican senators had cited in announcing their decisions to acquit. First, Romney did away with the ahistorical notion advanced by Trump defense attorney Alan Dershowitz—and rejected by the vast majority of constitutional scholars—that a statutory crime was necessary to meet the standard of “high crimes and misdemeanors.
“Given that in neither the case of the father nor the son was any evidence presented by the president’s counsel that a crime had been committed, the president’s insistence that they be investigated by the Ukrainians is hard to explain other than as a political pursuit,” Romney said. While the vote has little practical impact on the outcome of impeachment—with Trump being protected by the rest of his party determined to acquit—it changed the political and historical terms of the event.
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