Analysis: What happened Thursday in the impeachment trial, in 5 minutes
First, note that despite Trump and his defenders arguing that throwing someone out of office should require a crime, constitutional experts pretty broadly agree there does not need to be a statutory crime to warrant impeachment.Nadler talked about how the framers deliberately chose not to match impeachment to the criminal code, to allow for a president to be punished for breaking his oath of office without breaking the law.
While top Democrats don’t want former vice president Joe Biden or his son Hunter to testify about their actions in Ukraine, they willingly spent at least an hour Thursday analyzing the elder Biden’s diplomacy efforts in Ukraine as vice president.Rep. Sylvia Garcia had two main points on this. First, that the pressure Biden put on Ukraine to fire its top prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, was in line with policies from major players in the Western world. “Vice President Biden was not alone.
GOP defense No. 3: Trump withheld Ukraine aide and an Oval Office meeting for valid foreign policy reasons“You know this was all political,” is how lead House impeachment manager Adam B. Schiff described Trump’s actions on Ukraine.
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