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Senate Republicans who represent 15 million fewer people than Senate Dems can block impeachment of a president who committed crimes worse than Watergate, lost popular vote by 2.9 million votes & suffered largest midterm election defeat in US history
H/T @imillhiser for this stat
@imillhiser Unrepresentativeness of US Senate one of greatest threats to democracy in America. 34 senators from 17 smallest states representing only 7% of country can block Trump's removal from office washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/…
@imillhiser Senate Rs blocking new evidence/witnesses represent 15 million fewer Americans than Dems

Senate Rs lost popular vote 54-46 in 2018

Senators from 7% of country can block Trump's removal from office

Every impeachment story should highlight these facts

motherjones.com/politics/2020/…
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Ari Berman
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Texas closed 750 polling places after SCOTUS gutted Voting Rights Act, more than any other state

72% of closures came in 50 counties with fastest growth of blacks & Latinos

And last night Democrats & minority voters in Houston waited 6 hours to vote

motherjones.com/politics/2020/…
1,688 polling places closed since 2012 in states previously subject to Voting Rights Act. 750 closed in Texas, which had 6 hour lines last night

This is among best evidence I've seen for why Congress needs to restore VRA. House has passed bill but McConnell refuses to hold vote
Hervis Rogers waited 6 hours and 20 minute to vote last night in Houston

High turnout, lack of poll workers, old machines, long ballot contributed to long lines

But don’t forget Texas closed 750 polling places after SCOTUS gutted Voting Rights Act

📷via @edlavaCNN
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Ari Berman
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Democratic Party electorate is 40% non-white but the first two states are 92% white. This is a travesty
NH is 4th whitest state in US. IA is 6th. The stated principles of Democratic Party totally at odds with the two states that go first
I’m still thinking about how unfair it is that two rural states that are 91% & 93% white have so much power to shape the outcome of Democratic race
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Ari Berman
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Mind-blowing stat: 48 Senators who voted to convict Trump represent 18 million more Americans than 52 Republicans who voted to acquit
48 Senators who voted to convict Trump of abuse of power represent 170 million people

52 Senators who voted to acquit represent 152 million people

In US Senate majority represents minority

Here is math via @imillhiser docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
@imillhiser 52 GOP Senators who represent 18 million fewer people than Dems/Romney, in a body where Wyoming has 68 times the voting power of California, blocked impeachment of president who lost popular vote by 2.9 million. American democracy is badly broken
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Tom von Alten
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Alrighty, then, my live #impeachment thread for you.

Let's start with the GOP's Rules guy.
"Hearsay"
Adam Schiff
Unfair
Don't actually rise to an impeachable offense
Shut down by the rules

Blah blah blah WE DO NOT HAVE, OR KNOW OF ANY EXCULPATORY EVIDENCE so
we're going to spend all day pettifogging.

NOT ENOUGH TIME!
If you can't stick around for the whole day, your shorter #impeachment:

1) The president abused his power for personal gain.
2) The president obstructed Congress' investigation of his abuse.
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#Impeachment Hearings reinforced the #TrumpBribery story for staunch #Democrats, but did it get critical conversion votes from any 2016 #Trump supporters, who are already immune from #media distortion? #Trump2020 net-benefit:
Formidable rhetorical skills on full display from #Republican lawmakers, compelled to make best use of limited time granted by #AdamSchiff.

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There is ALOT of arguing about the legal #Impeachment process, so I thought I would lay the steps out for you.

Regarding the #ImpeachTrump campaign,
I am not the right person to answer if the laws are being followed by The House against the impeachment of @POTUS
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The Constitution lays out two specific actions, treason and bribery, that could lead to impeachment and removal of a president from office.

Then there is a broader category to accuse a president of a crime, although that category is more vague.
High crimes and misdemeanors
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High crimes and misdemeanors and NOT defined in the Constitution.

▫First, an impeachment resolution must be introduced by a member of the House of Representatives.
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Oeishik M.G. C. JD
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A note on #impeachment -

In a court of law, under non-presidential circumstances, impeachment is a tool litigation attorneys use to discredit the opposing side's witnesses at trial. When said witness takes the stand under oath attys. present evidence contrary to what the witness
claims. This weakens the other side's case by discrediting impeached witnesses's testimony. Once a witness has been impeached - by presentment of inconsistent testimony - the judge/jury can no longer use the impeached witnesses's testimony in reaching a verdict.
Simply put, they aren't trustworthy. In the case of Presidential impeachment that broad definition of impeachment applies, but the impeachment tool is used for a very different purpose. Under the Constitution, a sitting President cannot be tried in a court of law for anything.
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Vigorous #impeachment discussion yesterday between polls and elections expert @NateSilver538 (con) and former Harry Reid person @AJentleson (pro). The subject is worth a thread.
2. As with most issues before Congress, substance and politics are closely related but distinguishable. As to substance, the argument -- persuasive to me -- is that obstruction of justice, contacts with Russians seeking to influence a US election, corruption and the rest...
3...will do mortal damage to American democracy if tolerated. Not proceeding toward impeachment proceedings means tolerating all of these things, though it is possible to deceive oneself on that point. The political argument @NateSilver538 makes is about American voters.
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