Impeachment Day 4 Open Thread
Read Raskin’s unanswerable closing argument here. Read Jaime Herrera Beutler’s statement here. Van der Veen’s closing statement is below:
The final vote is in:
57-43 may not be enough for a conviction but it is definitely not an exoneration— Michelle Goldberg (@michelleinbklyn) February 13, 2021
Every Democratic Senator, plus Burr (!), Cassidy, Collins, Murkowski, Romney, Sasse (!), and Toomey. Saved by the supermajority requirement but a bipartisan majority knows he was guilty.
…as Paul observes in comments, “the sum total of senators in US history that have voted to convict a president of their own party just went up by 700%.” Not nearly enough, but not nothing.
…McConnell is currently giving a wild speech in which he convincingly dismantles the case of the defense, and then concludes with a bunch of words next to each other to explain why he voted to acquit.