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Friday, December 20, 2019

Has Trump been impeached? There was a House floor vote. So?

Breitbart suggests not, as a question of Constitutional language and how it should be read. Crabgrass readers are urged to have a look. A parallel question to that raised in the Breitbart item, is Trump "impeached" if articles are sent but McConnell declines to calendar a trial; and were McConnell to do so, does the Senate minority party have a remedy (if so what, how enforced); ditto for the House? (McConnell, must he await a delivery, or can he enforce a delivery as a ministerial act, not discretionary, after a floor vote in the House.)

At some point every child learns that the circus stays for a time but then leaves town. And business gets done while the circus has all three rings going; (presuming it's a full three-ring-circus in resources and effort).