Senate Impeachment Trial: The Sequel. Here's Why All of the "Jurors" Have Disqualifying Conflicts

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🗓️ 25 January 2021

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The first Senate impeachment of Donald Trump was anything but a trial: no witnesses, no documents, no evidence, no testimony. Indeed, half of the Senators refused to hold Trump accountable for crimes and abuses he committed in plain sight. But if Senate Impeachment Trial part one was an embarrassment, just wait until Senate Impeachment Trial: The Sequel. Every single senator - the jurors - has a disqualifying conflict, as they are either witnesses, victims or possible instigators/perpetrators themselves. In my 30 years as a federal prosecutor I participated in jury selection hundreds of times. The first rule of jury selection is that each juror must be able to decide a case fairly and impartially, with absolutely no stake in the result. Now obviously, an impeachment trial is a political proceeding, not a criminal trial. But to suggest that senators who are witnesses to the insurrection, victims of the insurrection or enablers of the insurrection, can sit as fair jurors is pure folly. In short, accountability and justice can not be achieved in a Senate Impeachment "trial." Accountability - justice - can only be achieved in a criminal trial. Please consider becoming a #TeamJustice patron at: https://www.patreon.com/glennkirschner My podcast, "Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner" can be downloaded where you get your podcasts. Follow me on: Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/glennkirschner2 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/glennkirschner2 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/glennkirschner2 Support the show (http://www.patreon.com/glennkirschner) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	So are you ready for Senate impeachment trial the sequel?
0:05.0	Let's talk about that because all of the Senate impeachment trials in the world
0:12.0	will not achieve accountability or justice. And justice
0:19.2	matters. Hey all, Glenn Kirchner here. So get ready for impeachment part two. You'll remember the first Senate impeachment trial, air quotes. It was an
0:49.6	embarrassment. It was a joke. It was, and I used this word advisedly rigged by Mitch McConnell because you can't call
1:01.2	something a trial when there are no witnesses, no documents, no photographs, no evidence, no testimony.
1:12.0	It was basically a bunch of speeches, followed by about half of the Senate
1:20.0	declining to hold Donald Trump accountable for crimes he committed in plain sight.
1:27.0	For his abuse of power and abuse of office by, among other things,
1:33.6	bribing President Zelensky of Ukraine
1:37.3	for a political favor, though,
1:40.6	announce a phony investigation into Joe Biden.
1:45.0	But if you thought Senate impeachment trial one was bad,
1:51.0	was a
1:53.0	bad, was a joke, was illegitimate. Boy, you ain't seen nothing yet,
1:55.0	because wait until Senate impeachment trial the sequel
2:01.0	in which every single juror has a disqualifying conflict.
2:10.0	All right, let's talk about that.
2:13.0	First of all, in a criminal trial, and I understand impeachment is a political matter, not a
2:18.4	criminal matter, but there are some very strong parallels between an impeachment trial and a criminal trial.
2:25.0	In a criminal trial, one of the first things we do is we conduct jury selection
2:31.0	and we go through a long process by which we question the jurors, we call it
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