43 senators who voted not guilty trial#

43 senators who voted not guilty trial#

So is the Florida Democratic Party, which ripped into Republican Senator Marco Rubio, who embarrassed himself during the trial by floating the delusional suggestion that if Trump were convicted as an immediately former president, then Hillary Clinton could be impeached as a distantly former secretary of state. вЂњSo next year when that Senate seat is on the ballot, we, the people of Missouri, need to show who we are.вЂќ And when Senator Blunt was too weak to stand up to his partyвЂ™s lies, he showed us who he is too,вЂќ says Sifton. вЂњWhen he raised his fist and betrayed our democracy, Josh Hawley showed us who he really is. A former legislator, Sifton produced a powerful video that opens with an image of Hawley raising his fist in solidarity with the fascist mob that was preparing to storm the Capitol on January 6. In Missouri, Democrat Scott Sifton launched his challenge to Senator Roy Blunt, the chair of the Republican Policy Committee, with a double-pronged assault on Blunt and the stateвЂ™s most controversial Trump sycophant, Senator Josh Hawley. The key is to recognize that a process that may not bring accountability in the Capitol can do so at the ballot box. The 1974 election results remind us that one of the vital aspects of any meaningful impeachment is the extension of the indictment beyond the president who has committed specific high crimes to include those members of Congress who engage in the high crime of defending a guilty man.

The fight simply moves from the Capitol to the polling place- as it did in 1974 when Richard Nixon quit the White House and avoided a House impeachment vote and a Senate trial, only to see Republicans lose four Senate seats and 48 House seats. They can continue for so long as the people demand accountability. History tells us that impeachments do not have to conclude with a conviction, or even a Senate trial, to matter.

вЂњAn impeachment that stands for whatвЂ™s right can actually build power, even if you donвЂ™t ultimately find the person guilty,вЂќ says the Rev.