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WASHINGTON It is finally the Senates turn. And if recent history is any guide, President Trumps impeachment trial will be an intensely partisan display that will make the polarization of the Clinton era look like a bygone period of political harmony.
While Democrats and Republicans managed to unanimously come to terms on how to start President Bill Clintons trial in 1999, the two parties and their two leaders are today irreconcilably divided on how to proceed and whether the trial is even legitimate.
Hanging over the showdown is a decade of intensifying Senate conflict exemplified by ruthless party-line rule changes, constant filibusters, the Republican blockade of Judge Merrick B. Garland, poisonous confirmation fights and a dearth of legislative action as Senate leaders shy from votes that could threaten incumbents up for re-election.
The Trump trial provides an opportunity for senators to show that the institution can still rise above brutal partisan combat at a moment of constitutional gravity. But there is little reason for optimism as Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the majority leader, has repeatedly expressed deep disdain for the House proceedings and the conduct of his political rivals across the aisle, a reflection of the view held by most of his Republican colleagues.
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All Moscow Mitch's fault.
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Zolorp
(1,115 posts)Slow that shit to a crawl. McConnell has gone nuclear on impeachment. Time to counter strike.
OrlandoDem2
(2,065 posts)Grasswire2
(13,569 posts)..so that maximum effect would have kept Trump from an acquittal followed by a victorious SOTU.
NCLefty
(3,678 posts)Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)but that seems to me to be our only recourse