The activities which follow the Sept 24th announcement will have far reaching impact on the American social and political scene. It will not be pretty. It will be necessary. And the residuals will be endured for many years.
Extreme corrupt behavior must necessarily be countered with extreme remedies. While the claim by Trump supporters is that he WAS elected and should be allowed to do that job, only the first half of that claim is valid. He was elected but he is not doing the job he was elected to. Neither is he doing so in a lawful manner.
Partisan or not, it is the job of Congress to hold the President to the laws of the land and to stop perpetrators from running amok. It is their job to challenge his actions when he is wrong.
When the proceeding reach the Senate we shall probably see the GOP Senators mount a partisan defense of Trump’s actions. It will be a trial with Senators as jury. The jury is supposed to weight the evidence and render an impartial verdict based in law and not on personal feelings.
I suspect that if the impeachment trial were an ordinary criminal proceeding most if not all Senators would not get past the voir dire to be accepted as a qualified juror.
The next few months will be very contentious. But since Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell, holds every House Bill in stasis anyway, there will be ample time to proceed with impeaching the President without foregoing other business of the Republic.
It remains to be seen whether any GOP Senators will break with their party bloc and vote to remove Trump for his many High Crimes and Misdemeanors. Their integrity is at stake.
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