It's the day after the announcement of President Trump's impeachment, and like a good and fervent Democrat, I should be rejoicing, but instead I've spend most of the day crying. How
is it possible that it’s not illegal for at least two of the Senators who will
be jurors in President Trump’s impeachment trial to openly declare that they
will be taking their orders from the defendant himself? I’m speaking of
Mitch McConnell and Lindsay Graham, although there are probably other Senators
who have made up their minds just as firmly to clear the President of all
charges. In any other trial, a juror so blatantly, openly,
breathtakingly biased would be dismissed. Is there not some way to ensure
that the impeachment trial will be conducted with as great a degree of
impartiality and fairness as our Constitution demands? How is it possible
that this country’s standards of legal justice can be so publicly corrupted by
the very people who have been elected to serve and enact those standards?
My heart is breaking. What has happened to my beautiful country? I
know that history is going to deal very harshly with those who have enabled
this President, but that is very little consolation right now.
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