Dems need Judicial Branch to rule against McConnell

Mitch McConnell

The House Judiciary Committee has voted to pass the impeachment amendments against Donald J. Trump as a result of sufficient evidence and witnesses testimony.  

The next steps are to submit the impeachment articles to the full House of Representatives to allow all Representatives to vote.  Impeachment is expected to pass there where Democrats are in the majority.  

As was seen in the impeachment inquiry, the vote was split along party lines.  Despite overwhelming evidence by all witnesses and even public disclosure of culpability by the President and his staff, Republicans refuse to see the evidence as indicative of impeaching Trump.

And now, Mitch McConnell, while speaking publicly on a right wing media show, has confessed that the jury trial of Donald J. Trump in the Senate will be a scam.  McConnell has admitted that he is coordinating with the White House and the President will be acquitted.  Americans should be outraged at the arrogance of the Senate majority leader.  

The Senate is sworn to allowing a fair trial and these remarks by McConnell represent it will be anything but fair.  The Senators are the jury in the trial of Donald J. Trump and when the jury, before having the trial, declares that there is no way the President will be convicted, it is a travesty of justice.

Democrats cannot allow this Senate trial to proceed without the legal intervention of the court system.  If the Democrats allow a vote in the House and then pass the impeachment proceedings on to the Senate, America is guaranteed that all of the evidence against this President will not be considered.  McConnell has said as much.  It will be the real sham impeachment trial, that Republicans have been accusing the Democrats of.  

Perhaps forty percent of Americans want this President to remain in office, but McConnell's admission essentially cheats the majority of Americans of a fair trial.  Furthermore, if there is no penalty to Donald Trump, you can be assured that he will continue to cheat in the 2020 election with renewed fervor.

Assuming the Democrats can sue McConnell for such public notice of disdain for the rule of law and American Constitutional justice, McConnell would have to explain to the court just why the impeachment trial can be run as a Republican sham trial.   If it drags out the impeachment proceedings into next year, so be it.  The negative publicity that McConnell and all Republican leadership would receive would almost certainly make them lose votes in 2020.

And maybe it can bring up new litigation against those Republicans who would dismiss American Constitutional justice and with it, American democracy.

Sue McConnell now!