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It's Tuesday, January 26th, 2021, from Slated to Just Die, Mike Pasca. The Senate today

voted to proceed with an impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump. However, Senator

Ram Paul of Kentucky issued an objection on the grounds that it was unconstitutional to do so.

44 of his fellow Republicans agreed. This is not a majority position among scholars let

alone a 90% consensus among experts, not even a consensus among reasonably informed people.

For instance, take Nixon. Judge Walter Nixon. He was literally disqualified after conviction

in the Senate. There's precedence. It happened before. But also think about the other Nixon,

Richard Millhouse. What if the day before an impending vote of conviction, he'd have just

said, now I resign? Then the Senate couldn't say, well fine, but we're also going to disqualify

you from holding office. Their hand would be stayed. I just wanted to say hand would be

stayed. It seems a pretty large flaw. If the only way to impose disqualification is for

those too pig headed to resign, or maybe some who really think they'll win the conviction

vote. What if they resigned the second after the conviction vote took place? They could

run again by the logic of, well, every Republican senator, except Mitt Romney, Lisa Murkowski,

Susan Collins, Ben Sass, and Pat Tumey. Good on them. Also at issue, supposedly was the

constitutionality of having Senator Pat Leahy preside over a conviction trial and not

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