Tiedrich: seriously, why the fuck are co-conspirators Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz allowed be jurors in

[highplainsdem]

the trial of their mobster overlord? asking for 81 million friends

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[TwilightZone]

1. Because they're not really jurors.

And least not in the normal sense. It's not a criminal or civil proceeding.

For the same reason, Pat Leahy can oversee the trial and still have a vote.

A discussion on the topic from NPR:

https://www.npr.org/2020/01/22/798644714/are-the-senators-in-the-impeachment-trial-jurors-or-something-else

[Biophilic]

2. He's got a point. I'm one of those 81 million.

I understand that this isn't a "jury" trial and therefore they aren't really 'jurors', but it is wonderfully awful that they get a vote. What I mean is I am completely filled with wonder at how this is ok. My brain just can't wrap itself around this concept. There are a "few" things in our democracy that never were meant to work, or perhaps people never thought they would need to "work." They last four years, and now going on 5, have shown us a lot of holes and muddy puddles.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Because this isn't a trial anything like a normal court trial

and it shouldn't be compared to one. It's a whole different thing.

[BarackTheVote]

4. The Framers argued that the Senate

should have the power to try impeachments because when the Constitution was written, Senator was appointed; they argued that they would be impartial because they wouldn’t need to worry about the consequences of their vote on their reelection prospects. Well, then they amended the constitution to make Senators elected and didn’t bother to rethink the whole them trying impeachment thing. So 🤷‍♂️

[Wawannabe]

6. Hmmmmmm

This is good info.

Maybe we can AMEND!

This is certainly unprecedented territory and can be used to AMEND!

[Blue Owl]

5. Yeah, why?