In the letter to the Senate, published Tuesday by the group Lawyers Defending American Democracy, the lawyers said that McConnell’s “assertions cannot withstand scrutiny.”
Just because the Constitution commits the impeachment process to a ‘political’ branch of government and senators may legitimately promote their partisan self-interest as part of the legislative process, does not mean they are permitted to do so when serving as judges and jurors in an impeachment trial,” the letter reads. “To the contrary, as the adjudicators of impeachment, they have a duty to serve in a quasi-judicial capacity.”
Lawyers sign open letter to McConnell criticizing Impeachment Trial…
Moscow Mitch, like the rest of the Republican senators and representatives, isn’t all that familiar with what the Constitution actually means.
All of these Crackers are “enemies of the people” who take their direction from the extremist Federalist Society.