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Sunday, February 14th, 2021

Republican Senators Are Asking the Courts to Take Care of Trump for Them

Author:     Jonathan Chait
Source:     New York Magazine
Publication Date:     5:45 P.M. 13 February 2021
 Link: Republican Senators Are Asking the Courts to Take Care of Trump for Them
Stephan:   Like many of you, I suspect, I was appalled at the lack of courage and ethics on the part of those Republican senators who voted to acquit Donald Trump on a bogus technicality. But then in listening to final comments from McConnell and others I came to share the view of Jonathan Chait who wrote this piece. So, I guess we now wait to see what district attorneys in Georgia and New York do. One thing I am clear about is that history is going to condemn Trump and all his enablers for their lack of integrity. Of course, they don't care. What they care about is power and money, and for them only the here and now matters; that history will see them as loathsome hardly matters, they will be dead.

Donald Trump limped his way to acquittal in his second impeachment trial, with 57 senators voting to convict him of inciting insurrection. But it is an ominous sign that not only did many of the senators who did vote to acquit base their position on a technicality — Trump was supposedly ineligible for impeachment as an ex-officeholder, as opposed to not guilty of the crime — they conspicuously pointed toward the court system as a venue for further prosecution.

In front of the bars, for now. Credit: Mandel Ngan/AFP/

“The ultimate accountability is through our criminal justice system where political passions are checked,” said Republican senator Thom Tillis, who voted not guilty, “No president is above the law or immune from criminal prosecution, and that includes former president Trump.” Mitch McConnell, who likewise voted to acquit, announced, “Impeachment was never meant to be the final forum for American justice. … We have a criminal justice system in this country. We have civil litigation. And former Presidents are not immune from being held accountable by either one.”

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1 Comment

  1. Alan R on Monday, February 15, 2021 at 2:48 am

    What a comprehensive list of world progress. It’s unfortunate grown-up children refuse their responsibility. Highly relevant piece