OPINION_ Why Senate is entirely right to vote down House’s impeachment charges

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Why Senate is entirely right to vote down House’s impeachment charges

By Andrew C. McCarthy
February 4, 2020 | 6:38pm




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The curtain is lowering on President Trump’s trial in the Senate. A vote is scheduled for Wednesday. Inevitably, it will be an easy acquittal. So, what have we learned? That the Framers were wise to fret over the specter of impeachment as a partisan weapon.

The House impeachment inquiry was shoddy. The president’s counsel was denied the right to cross-examine witnesses and present evidence. That’s why a handful of Senate Democrats may vote to acquit, joining Republicans.

The lesson’s clear: It is profoundly wrong to proceed with impeachment in the absence of egregious wrongdoing that galvanizes a public consensus that the president should be removed — wrongdoing so serious that it can move the required two-thirds of senators, regardless of partisan ties, to vote for conviction. Pursuing impeachment for lesser wrongs is paralyzing for our governance and divisive for our citizenry.

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To pull that off, they necessarily had to cut corners. In America, when a person is properly accused of serious wrongdoing, we insist on due-process protections so that any resulting conviction has integrity. But accusers cannot afford due process when they knowingly bring an unworthy case. The Senate is right to reject the House’s unworthy case.

Andrew C. McCarthy, a former chief assistant US attorney, is a contributing editor of National Review. Twitter: @AndrewCMcCarthy

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