Doesn’t Matter Who Wins the K Race; We’re All the Same

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

There have been two impeachments, I believe: Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton. The rules are do not have much precedent behind them to guide us as to interpretation. So assume in the absence of that, most of the Senate and House will apply standards similar to Fed Evidence rules and caselaw regarding how those are applied.

I think the standard applied (regardless of what technically is required) will effectively be not as high as crim, but not as low as civil. There's more than adequate grey area here, if this call is all the Democrats have, to justifiably acquit w/o appearing political.

The Democrats have just aimed the gun at the bear. Better kill him, because if he skates or pushes trial off until after the next election, this could blow up in the Democrats' faces.

It'll be interesting to see if Pelosi can slow walk this and drip out a bunch of lurid facts about Trump over the coming months. That could harm him. Ty's belief the Rs could ultimately disown Trump will only occur if they know there's such damning evidence that 1/3 of the Senate cannot acquit without looking nakedly political. That will require flipping an accomplice, or more transcripts of much better quality. That's possible. But appears unlikely at the moment.

Seb, Ty posted the rules, the CJ presides I think. And there is a strict timeline. At least we will get a trial.