Why Does Trump's Lawyer Hate The Constitution?
The House managers didn't write the Constitution, our revered founders did. The proposed remedy of barring a successfully impeached official from ever running for office again was the framer's idea, not Nancy Pelosi's. They literally wrote that passage into the text of the Constitution. I thought Republicans believed in going by it's text, not any newfangled modern ideas regarding when to let to "the voters" decide and when not to?
The framers thought that remedy applicable only after a government official is found guilty of High Crimes and Misdemeanors. Without that finding there is no such penalty. The framers could have left that part out of the Constitution if they wanted to, and reserved it for future voters to decide whether a successfully impeached official can ever again serve in elected office. They chose not to. They thought it appropriate for Congress to decide that question. Why is Trump's team second guessing the founders?
For that penalty to be applied, two thirds of the U.S. Senate has to first agree that the official in question, in this case the President of the United States, is guilty of High Crimes and Misdemeanors. Democrats can't do that on their own. Reaching that threshold is intrinsically more bipartisan than the votes cast for 90% of the routine matters that the U.S. Senate passes judgement on.
Are Republicans blaming Benjamin Franklin for the origin of "Cancel Culture?"