'This is a trial by name only,' said Laurence Tribe, the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at the Harvard Law School of Harvard University.
As President Donald Trump's impeachment trial gets underway on Tuesday, most Democrats will have already come to terms with the reality that the president will almost certainly be cleared of his alleged crimes.
Already, the fact that Trump was impeached by the majority-Democrat House on December 18, before he could even complete his first term as president, is a permanent stain on his record, Tribe said. But, the fact that his exoneration will likely come at the hands of a Republican-led Senate, he said, will not be a"badge of honor" for the president."This is a trial in name only," Tribe said.
For Tribe, the impeachment trial was"rigged" before it even began because Republican senators, including McConnell, have made it clear"from the beginning" that they will defend the president, despite the fact that are"supposed to be impartial." If and when Trump is exonerated of the charges against him, Tribe said,"it will send a message that if you have a president who has a very powerful and unprincipled ally leading the Senate and if the senator is in the president's own party, then the impeachment process is broken and will not work."
The only real hope of keeping the government in check, Tribe said, appears to lie with the American people.
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