On Impeachment: I remember once I was giving a presentation on a major change in policy at the bank I was working for, as I was talking the CEO passed me a note: “your winning shut up.”  I suspect that was the content of the message pro-Trump Senators gave to the former President’s legal team as they prepare their arguments.

While the headlines were all about impeachment this week, while the trial was going on the House committees were meeting on the COVID-19 relief package.

Last week the Senate voted 56 to 44 to proceed with the impeachment trial over Republican objections that it was unconstitutional to impeach a former official.  While Democrats carried the day on the motion to proceed, and got six Republican Senators to join them, it will take 67 Senators to convict the President on the House impeachment charges.  With 44 Republican Senators on record as believing it is not constitutional to convict a former official there seems little chance that the Senate will convict.  With this solid base of support the expectation is that the President’s defense is a formality and that a majority of the 50 Republican Senators will vote to acquit former President Trump and fallback on the position that the trial is unconstitutional and not be concerned ...

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