re: #150 Targetpractice

This doesn’t sound like an impeachment strategy, this sounds like an election strategy. And that is the issue that is being brought up, that if we just treat this as a case of run-of-the-mill corruption, that nothing Trump has done is worthy of impeachment, then the next Republican in line may very well be a far more insidious bastard who builds on the precedents set. We’re very much in danger of saying that stealing an election with foreign assistance, and then covering up such through methods such as suborning perjury, are acceptable if we don’t have 67 Democrats in the Senate to vote to convict.

Nearly every argument being made by the “impeachment now” side is about how it will help with next year’s election. Mine isn’t any different. Most of the argument is over when the best time to do it is. And if you think impeachment without conviction will actually cause Trump or McConnell to become scared of the rule of law, then I don’t know what to say. The only real force right now is next year’s elections.

Impeachment and conviction is not a legal rememdy for anything, only a political one. All you’re punishing people with is that they cannot hold a political office. What it corrects is the fact that the person should not be in office. But, since we will not get 20 GOP senators to convict him, he will remain in office.