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| Topic | The senate will in control of what people see in the impeachment trial. |
| Zeus 01/20/20 12:03:21 AM #19: | Blighboy posted... Hey look, Zeus made three different arguments against Trump's impeachment, none of which addressed the crime he was accused of Three? You're as bad at math as you are at rhetoric. At most, there are two separate arguments and that's only if you count the second amendment remark as an argument which it isn't. Otherwise, you forgot the quotation marks around "crime." BlackScythe0 posted... I still don't know why she didn't just sit on it. Really wasn't any reason to send it to the Senate. Same reason as doing the impeachment vote in the first place: Political grandstanding. adjl posted... The impeachment of a US president has reached the senate exactly three times, one of which happened nearly a century before the concept of televising the trial was even an option. This really hasn't happened enough times for there to be a "usual." A single instance of doing it one way (particularly when doing it that way can very rightly be criticized) isn't exactly strong precedent. It does, however, undermine the ridiculous faux outrage over it happening the *same* way it did last time. --- (\/)(\/)|-| There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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