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Here’s how the impeachment outcome looked to leading editorial & opinion pages:
“Republican senators are shockingly unaware of their constitutional obligations and unable to provide a coherent explanation for their actions.”
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
“What a reasonable senator could not do was what happened here: wholesale shirking of the Senate’s constitutional responsibility to assess — which includes a responsibility to obtain — all the evidence of potential wrongdoing.”
washingtonpost.com/opinions/our-p…
“Over the past few years, Republicans who once warned that Trump posed grave dangers to both party and country have, one by one, cravenly buckled.”
usatoday.com/story/opinion/…
“Romney’s views are not all that rare among his Republican colleagues, who know in their hearts that what Trump did was inexcusable & indefensible, the crossing of a once unthinkable moral & ethical red line… What is rare, however, is Romney’s courage.”
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
“Republican Senators… must have calculated that the wrath of a vindictive president is more dangerous than the sensible judgment of the American people, who, polls showed, overwhelmingly favored the summoning of witnesses.”
washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-c…
“Yet the Senate Republican majority brushed all that aside. Instead of taking seriously their oath…senators — led by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) — voted cravenly, and largely along party lines, to acquit the president.”
latimes.com/opinion/story/…
“Everyone with principles has left the party.”
nytimes.com/2020/02/03/opi…
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Sheldon Whitehouse
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Astoundingly, Republican colleagues are criticizing House presentation as providing “nothing new”

—wait for it—

WHILE they are blockading ALL new evidence + witnesses! Irony Department working overtime.
But if you want something new from yesterday: White House broke the law TWICE — Impoundment Control Act and Whistleblower Protection Act — and both acts of lawbreaking serviced to cover-up Ukraine scheme from Congress.
When you break the law — twice— to cover something up, it tells you a lot about how bad that something was, particularly when lawyers are involved in the lawbreaking cover-up. Had to be pretty desperate.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
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My take on a long grim day.

My father served the United States government his whole life, as a WWII Marine Corps dive bomber pilot, as a CIA officer in post-war Europe, & as a career foreign service officer with three tours in the Southeast Asia conflict.
Yesterday’s ordeal of relentless evidence about the Ukraine "drug deal" cooked up & covered up in our government, about disgraceful conduct & motives of the President & officials, & the damage it has done to our reputation, allies, & interests, has sickened my stomach & my heart.
As a lawyer, the role of the White House lawyers, apparently colluding with & covering up this sordid episode, is particularly troubling & raises serious questions about misuse of the law to conceal wrongdoing.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
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In her confirmation hearing, Chairman Neumayr agreed that climate change is real, that it’s a major issue for coastal states like Rhode Island, and that some of our most important financial institutions are warning about the dire threats it poses.
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Now, she’s proposing to neuter the environmental law that ensures the government’s most consequential decisions account for the effects of climate change.
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Mieke Eoyang
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So the Republicans are hanging their #impeachment case on four points, circulated to their members today. If this is the best they've got, they're in trouble. I will explain.
Point 1: the call summary.

Trump's aides know a) he's not the most coherent speaker and b) the kingpin never actually says the incriminating thing.

So they have to set the context for the call.

They communicate the actual ask on *three* occasions before the 25th call.
Trump's aides tell Ukrainians a WH visit is conditioned on investigations into Hunter Biden & 2016 on:

July 2, in Toronto when Volker talks to Zelenskyy.
July 10, at the WH when Sondland meets a Ukrainian delegation.
July 19, on a phone call between Sondland & Zelenskyy.
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A short thread on #impeachment.

I have pre-existing conditions—I fear my life & that of my friends being taken away.
I have close friends with DACA—I fear their right to be here being taken away.
I'm a Latino parent—I fear my child will be discriminated against worse than I was
I'm the survivor of an in-person death threat against me & my family, from a MAGA extremist who hated me just for who I am—I fear him or another carrying out those threats.

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I'm a voting rights advocate—I fear a system is currently being created that will lead to permanent minority rule, & that that minority will use political power to permanently restricts the rights of the majority.
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Positively Spiritual Annie
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It's time I had my say about #Impeachment, DJT's obstructionistic tactics, and @SpeakerPelosi's not pushing for an inquiry yet.

When AG Barr released the redacted version of the report to Congress, he did *not* include any of the underlying documents on which Mueller relied.

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Just like a lawsuit, a case has to be built based on facts and evidence. Both the Intelligence Committee and the Judiciary Committee have been working their way through the system, including voting to hold AG Barr in Contempt of Congress. DJT has been fighting them in court.

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Meanwhile, the Ways and Means Committee has also been working on getting DJT's tax returns. One of the Committees has also been working on getting records subpoenaed from DJT's financial management firm and from Deutche Bank, known for Russian money laundering.

3/
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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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