As President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial gets underway in the U.S. Senate, most Democrats realize that Trump is almost certain to be acquitted by the Senate’s Republican majority — especially in light of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and other Republicans making it painfully clear that they have no desire to honestly evaluate the evidence. Trump critics Bill Kristol and Jeffrey K. Tulis, in a January 20 article for the conservative website The Bulwark, ask a painful question: do Senate Republicans even take their oath to “do impartial justice according to the Constitution” seriously?
“Does that oath mean anything?,” Kristol and Tulis ask. “Anything at all? Citizens can’t help but suspect the answer is no.”
Kristol and Tulis go on to lament the fact that some GOP senators have been flaunting their intention to disregard their oaths. Continue reading.