Thread by @moscow_project

.@RepJeffries: "President Trump can's address the substance of our case. He therefore complains about process. But these procedural complaints are baseless excuses."
They have no basis in law, no basis in history, and no basis in truth.

@RepJeffries "One of the most sacred principles of justice is that no man should be the judge in his own case. And yet that is exactly what President Trump has been determined to do."

@RepJeffries .@RepJeffries: "A president who serves as the judge of his own innocence is is not acting as a president. That's a dictator. That's a despot. That is not democracy."

@RepJeffries "Presidents come, and presidents go. They have all sharply criticized house procedures. But no president has ever treated those objections as a basis for complete defiance."

@RepJeffries Trump was given the same protections and privileges in impeachment as his predecessors—in many cases, more.
"The fact that President Trump declined to take advantage of these protections does not excuse his blanket unconstitutional obstruction."

@RepJeffries "If this process was good enough for other presidents, why isn't it good enough for President Trump?"
Simple: because Trump believes he is above the law.

@RepJeffries House Democrats are not playing games with the rules.
They are using the exact same rules that were put into place by House Republicans in previous Congresses.

@RepJeffries Executive privilege does not allow the executive branch to block evidence of its own wrongdoing—and, even if it did, Trump has never actually asserted executive privilege in the impeachment investigation, only threatened to do so.

@RepJeffries Every time an administration has tried to invoke absolute privilege, they have been laughed out of court.
Trump's claims are no less laughable.

@RepJeffries "America is an idea. We can either defend that idea, or we can abandon it.
"God help us all if we choose to abandon it. "