Violence for Me, Charges for Thee
In a rousing January 26 Senate floor speech calling Donald Trump’s impeachment trial a “sham,” Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) tacitly and rightly impeached the character of its Democrat authors.
Aside from illustrating the hypocrisy of charging the ex-president with inciting an insurrection, when Trump’s rhetoric had been tame compared to that of many rabble-rousing Democrats, Paul also filed a point of order objecting to the trial on the basis that it’s unconstitutional. While he lost on that 55-45, with five GOP senators voting with the Democrats, his words were not lost on those with ears to hear.
Paul first briefly made two points about the trial’s apparent unconstitutionality: that the Supreme Court’s chief justice, John Roberts, will not preside, as the Constitution prescribes; and that impeachment is meant for public officials, not private citizens. These points are important, too, so much so that they warrant elaboration.
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