I heard comments this morning on Washington Journal on C-SPAN 2/9/2024
from Philip Bobbitt, law professor, Columbia University and guest
lecturer at University of Texas at Austin.

He was really hostile to the second impeachment of Trump because of the
timing, so late in his term that the impeachment trial in the Senate
took place after he was already out of office. He said that "does
violence" to the clause that only civil officers are subject to
impeachment, and not former civil officers.

This is the best I could do in quote.

His prosecutors tried to smudge that "He shouldn't be allowed to
get away with what he's done" is a political standard not a
legal standard. Impeachment shouldn't be political; it's a
constitutional standard.

What should have happened: A joint resolution should have been
adopted condemning what had been done and labeling what it
plainly was: an effort to subvert the electoral process. That
would have cleared the decks for the insurrection clause in the
Fourteenth Amendment and, right after January 6, would have
picked up Republican votes.

In the long run, obeying the law as strictly as possible is the
best course.

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