Ruth Bader Ginsburg Implies Impeachment Trial Should Include Only Unbiased Senators
RBG Makes Hypocritical Impeachment Comments for All To See
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By C. Douglas Golden
Published December 22, 2019 at 5:34am
What if you had an impeachment trial and nobody showed up to vote on it?
That’s at least what Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is suggesting. Not in so many words, mind you — but the subtext is certainly there.
So a bit of context before the remarks by the Notorious RBG: A few days ago, basically noting the politicized nature of the debate, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said that he couldn’t consider himself an “impartial juror.”
“I’m not an impartial juror,” McConnell said. “This is a political process. There is not anything judicial about it. Impeachment is a political decision.”
RBG, meanwhile, said that she thought that there should only be “impartial jurors” during an impeachment hearings.
“The House indicts, and the Senate tries. Should a trier be impartial? Of course, that’s the job of an impartial judge,” she said during an interview with the BBC before Trump’s impeachment.
However, the BBC’s Razia Iqbal said that it was “problematic” some senators had already said they’d made up their mind.
“Well, if a judge said that, a judge would be disqualified from sitting on the case,” Ginsburg said.
Well, senators aren’t judges, they’re jurors, if you want to use this labored metaphor. Beyond that, however, the same rule applies to jurors. So does this mean Mitch McConnell has disqualified himself?
Only if every almost every other senator disqualifies himself, too.
First, let’s face facts about this: McConnell was right about this being a political process.
So that being said, who in the upper chamber isn’t political? I mean, we saw what happened in the House of Representatives. The Democrats may want to pretend that this was a fair process in terms of impeachment, but the process says that’s a lie.
Those of you who sat through the Democrat debate Thursday may have noticed that untalented moneybags Tom Steyer — who hopefully kept receipts for the amount of money he blew through to make the debates — mentioned that he had been trying to impeach President Donald Trump since pretty much day one as if it were a badge of honor. You can imagine Nancy Pelosi going Col. Tom Parker and shooting out her TV (presumably with an Airsoft gun, given her position on gun control) when he said that.
Because, as we know, Democrats are very serious about impeachment. They’re very somber. There’s never been a more somber and serious moment in the House of Representatives than when the Democrat-controlled body impeached the president, which is why Pelosi had to do this:
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