A quick update on exactly where the Senate impeachment trial stands
from the Government Accountability Office which found that the White House violated federal law when it withheld aid to Ukraine last year, asserting that it buoyed their case to subpoena additional evidence for the Senate trial. Now, certain Republicans like Mitt Romney have said they would like to hear from witnesses like John Bolton, but as we all should know by now, what elected Republicans publicly say and what they vote for are typically two very different things.
Theoretically, this is supposed to be conducted like a typical trial where the jurors are reserving their judgement before all evidence has been produced , but given that it seems unlikely any new evidence will even be introduced in this trial, it already seems pretty clear which way the majority of jurors will vote.
That is frankly, not happening, which begs the question: what is the point of all this? The way the founders envisioned this process was as an earnest one that would be as insulated from hyper-partisanship as possible, but we now find ourselves in a moment where the trial seems to be decided before it has even begun.
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