My take: The trial is performative and the Chief Justice's role ceremonial. If most want him to go down, he goes down. Where are the votes, though? -----Original Message----- From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of u?l? ??? Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2021 10:14 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [FRIAM] incitement
Right, but that doesn't really answer the question. I suppose it's akin to "living constitution" vs. "originalism". How do we *expect* our individual Senator to make their decision? Does there even need to be any kind of semi-explicit heuristic by which they make such decisions? Can they simply "go with their gut"? On 1/19/21 10:08 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > It would certainly hit Benjamin Franklin's assertion that impeachment was for > those times when the Executive "rendered himself obnoxious" or Hamilton's > "those offences which proceed from the misconduct of men, or in other words, > from the abuse or violation of some public trust. They are of a nature which > may with peculiar propriety be denominated POLITICAL, as they relate chiefly > to injuries done immediately to the society itself." -- ↙↙↙ uǝlƃ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/
