Welcome everyone to Courtside, a discussion of legal issues, soon, hopefully to be a discussion of legal issues not involving Donald J. Trump.

Happy Valentine's Day to all of you. We obviously had something of an anti-valentine State present yesterday with the Senate voting by a 57 to 43 vote.

Trump was not convicted of a lifetime ban from future office

holding. Now, I know some of you are bummed, but I want to spend this time with you today to

explain to you why things are actually pretty good and how yesterday's vote sets a framework for

Donald Trump to be finally held accountable.

Let me first start with the sublime, then move to the ridiculous.

The sublime, those house managers, Jamie Raskin, Stacey Plaskett, Joan Agus, and so many others,

watching them, they rose to the historical moment.

It was beautiful work. And this was a tragic vote.

These 43 senators read the impeachment clause out of the Constitution when it comes to January.

And not for something minor. Like, I don't know, impeaching someone for an affair, for example.

This was an insurrection of the Capitol.

And not just on any day, it wasn't like they were like voting on National Chocolate Day or something

like that. This was on their most sacred day, the day when they count the votes and exercise,

the peaceful transition of power. The house managers were a study in persuasion and their closings. Man, they were

riveting. And, you know, one of the things that I think hasn't been really documented, and I think

it's worth thinking about, is just how much they went after Mitch McConnell. You know, particularly I want

to focus on Representative McGuze's's closing because he was really a star.

I mean, just beautiful, eloquent and the like.

But you can see what he was doing.

He was invoking Henry Clay right away, who's, of course, from Kentucky, called him a son of Kentucky.

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