IF it does indeed go to the Senate for a trial, can someone explain to me how people running for POTUS such as Senators Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Cory Booker and Amy Klobuchar could actually vote to convict without a conflict of interest? It would be like having Steve Jobs on the jury to determine whether Microsoft had and abused their monopoly.
Worse, they all have to end their campaigns. They have to sequester themselves in DC with the rest of the senate for the hearings. No election for them.
It also takes a huge chunk out of fundraising for the rest of the senate as well, and those hearings would take the better part of a year.
Just think of all the mischief we could cause. Call on them to either end their campaigns or recuse themselves. Of course the Democrats would object to that and the argument would go all the way to the supreme court. By which time it is 2021.
IF it does indeed go to the Senate for a trial, can someone explain to me how people running for POTUS such as Senators Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Cory Booker and Amy Klobuchar could actually vote to convict without a conflict of interest? It would be like having Steve Jobs on the jury to determine whether Microsoft had and abused their monopoly.
Worse, they all have to end their campaigns. They have to sequester themselves in DC with the rest of the senate for the hearings. No election for them.
It also takes a huge chunk out of fundraising for the rest of the senate as well, and those hearings would take the better part of a year.
Just think of all the mischief we could cause. Call on them to either end their campaigns or recuse themselves. Of course the Democrats would object to that and the argument would go all the way to the supreme court. By which time it is 2021.