Article II of the Impeachment proceedings is obstruction of justice. That itself indicates clearly the US House was between a rock and a hard place to attempt to find the truth.
I think the impeachment trial in the US Senate provides an opportunity to understand the US Constitution better and it's power that states no American is above the law.
Moscow Mitvch of the US Senate seems to live in a let's pretend world. He wants to believe the US House has some sort of deranged procedure to make a stab at putting together articles of impeachment of Donald J. Trump. The US House has worked very hard at coming up with these articles of impeachment following the intimidation of a foreign president to contribute to Trump's re-election by creating a 'let's pretend' Joe Biden and Hunter Biden are the most wanted criminal in the world.
These articles of impeachment are not occurring in a sterile environment. The events that have occurred since the articles were voted on by the US House only sustains and enforces them. We have witnessed a USA president assassinate to generals of a sovereign country. Is every country in the world Trump's playground for whatever purpose he chooses? There have been significant persons that love this country coming forward with a need to contribute to the understanding the lawlessness of the Trump administration. At least that is what they intend to talk about. There are more and more problems with this administration just in the short time since the Articles of Impeachment were passed. Moscow Mitch needs to realize the soil under his feet belongs to a country that exists because of the brevity of law as weighed by the truth.
The future is not set. I believe the hearing in the US Senate is very important and it has to weigh all the evidence and testimony. This will prove if Moscow Mitch actually has divided loyalties and whether or not he puts the US Constitution first. His recent grandstanding on the US Senate floor would indicate he isn't a friend or loyalist to the Rule of Law, the US Constitution or the absolute truth before the country.
This is not about politics. It is about the country. Impeachment is not about politics, it is about the Rule of Law and how it must be followed by the Executive Branch. This is about the laws of the USA. There is no room for glibness in honoring the power of the US Constitution. It is the first law of the USA. The USA Constitution is not a political document.
January 13, 2020
By Jonathan Turley
With an impeachment trial (click here) likely to start next week, the Senate (and the country) will soon be faced with what the late Yale professor Arthur Leff described as one of the law’s most “lovely, knotty problems.”
Leff was speaking of what is loosely called “the law of attempts,” a category of crimes where someone is accused of contemplating, but not actually carrying out, an unlawful act. The Trump trial could be the first time the Senate considers charges that amount to allegedly conceiving, but then abandoning, an abuse of power. While it is certainly true that there was a temporary act of “nonfeasance” in withholding the aid to Ukraine, it was ultimately released over two weeks before the deadline under federal law....
