Re: U.S Election 2020
For a sitting president, this is due process. Impeachment is political but the Senate trial isn’t - at least not in the same narrow tribal sense. The bar to conviction must be set high, and a two-thirds majority of a chamber that includes political allies is only going to be won over by the most egregious behaviour. A Senate may acquit on political grounds but a conviction represents a broad consensus that the president is indeed guilty.
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