.MaddowBlog: Indifferent to irony, Ken Starr laments the 'age of impeachment'
About a year and a half ago, before Donald Trump launched an illegal extortion scheme, Ken Starr was promoting a book and sat down with CNN’s Jake Tapper. The host asked whether he believed the current president would ever be impeached.
“In this particular juncture in America’s history, the Senate is being called to sit as the high court of impeachment all too frequently,” Starr said. “Indeed, we are living in what I think can aptly be described as the ‘age of impeachment.’” The hypocrisy, of course, is breathtaking. When Starr was hunting Clinton, he had none of these concerns. It was only when a Republican president started abusing his power in the hopes of cheating an election that Starr decided that he’d like to see the process used far less frequently.Note, for example, that his new posture is inherently dismissive of the underlying allegations and their seriousness.
What’s more, the idea that presidential impeachments occur “all too frequently” seems excessive. There have been three such Senate trials in a constitutional system that’s been around for nearly a quarter of a millennium. Yes, having two such experiences in one generation skews our perspective, but that is not a prima facia argument against the practice.
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