re: #451 Belafon

I am kind of fond of due process. The question becomes how far do we allow political choices to modify that.

They weren’t modified. Franken was given due process, he just decided to cut it short rather than go through a lengthy public hearing process. The fact that his colleagues called on him to resign didn’t deprive him of his rights, he exercised full agency and made a choice. I think it’s a distortion of reality to cast “due process” as a specific set of official events that must occur in a set order.