As they acquitted President Trump of high crimes and misdemeanors nearly five months ago, several Republican senators cheerfully assured us that impeachment would chasten him.
“I believe that the president has learned from this case,” Sen. Susan Collins of Maine toldCBS News. “The president has been impeached. That’s a pretty big lesson.”
Here’s a thought experiment to help test that prediction: Imagine that the Senate had simply postponed its impeachment vote — and that we had the opportunity now to update the articles of impeachment. Continue reading.