“If this shallow, hurried and wholly partisan impeachment were to succeed, it would rip the country apart, pouring gasoline on the fire of cultural divisions that already exist. “The framers believed that there should never, ever be a partisan impeachment,” Alexander said in a statement on Jan. Lamar Alexander also argued that the risk of endorsing a partisan process in today’s polarized political climate by removing Trump from office outweighed the dangers that Trump’s actions posed.
“The House failed in its responsibilities.” “The House rushed through what should have been one of the most serious, consequential undertakings of the legislative branch simply to meet an artificial, self-imposed deadline,” she said. The President’s behavior, she said in a floor speech announcing her decision this week, was “shameful and wrong,” but the House’s process was not an apt remedy for it. Lisa Murkowski, who joined Senate Democrats in opposing Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation in 2018 and who had been pinpointed as a possible Republican dissenter in the impeachment process, voted for acquittal for precisely this reason. That ultimately appeared to be the stronger argument for some senators who had been on the fence. They argued not that senators should cross party lines to make a bipartisan judgment, but that Republicans should stick together in order to not endorse the House’s partisan vote to impeach the President based on charges that he had abused the power of his office by withholding aid to a foreign ally for his own political benefit, and then obstructed Congress’s efforts to investigate his conduct. “But irrespective of these things, with my vote I will tell my children, and their children, that I did my duty to the best of my ability believing that my country expected it of me.”īut Republicans in both the House and Senate constructed their arguments on the opposite point. “I acknowledge that my verdict will not remove the President from office,” he said in an emotional speech on the Senate floor before the vote. But Romney knew it would be a futile gesture. It was a call that only Romney heeded, which technically made this the first bipartisan conviction vote of a president.
Schiff’s final speech was one last attempt to try and persuade moderate Republicans to break with their party. And that is a trend most dangerous for our country.” Members of Congress, he said, are “now far more accepting of the most serious misconduct of a president as long as it is a president of one’s own party. Adam Schiff, the House Democrats’ lead impeachment manager, lamented during his closing arguments. The members of Congress have changed,” Rep.
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