I am still of the mind that the Dems/Congress made a series of strategic errors on 1/6 regarding impeachment. I'm not really blaming them---these were very weighty decisions that would have had to have been made on short notice---but they seem wrong in retrospect.
Schumer should not have agreed to the UC that setup the pro forma sessions running through 1/19. While it's true the Senate leaders (probably) now have the authority to break into adjournments, they lost the opportunity to press the importance of immediacy.
More importantly, Pelosi should not have adjourned the House on 1/7 until 1/10. I would have preferred an immediate impeachment vote, but at the very least she should have only adjourned until 1/8, and kept everyone in town.
Short of that, she should have broken the adjournment (yes, she had the authority) and brought everyone back over the weekend when it became even more clear that Trump's actions were obviously impeachable offenses.
https://twitter.com/MattGlassman312/status/1347681341643628545?s=20
The consequence of all this is that the partisan focus of the impeachment trial is a procedural fight over whether this is even constitutional (IMO it is, but YMMV), backed by a (somewhat bipartisan) sense it no longer matters and/or we should all just move on and look forward.
Now, maybe all that's true anyway if the House votes on impeachment on 1/7 and immediately delivers the articles to an in-session Senate. But maybe it's not. And regardless of ultimate vote, Congress would have been better of as an institution putting its foot down immediately.
Also agree with this. Trump's behavior before, during, and after the insurrection included lots of impeachable behavior.
https://twitter.com/PhilipWallach/status/1359185086172848130?s=20
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