So what about the impeachment game and sham? Is what botox drunk Nancy Pelosi is doing, by holding on to the Articles of Impeachment violate the Constitution? More specifically, does it violate the Sixth Amendment? Joel Pollak seems to think so. Maybe this is another one of Pelosi’s “we have to hold it to find out what’s in it” moment.
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The Sixth Amendment to the Constitution explicitly states: “In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial.” Impeachment is not a criminal proceeding, but it would be difficult to argue that the president enjoys fewer rights than an ordinary criminal defendant.
That is, unless he is a Republican named Trump.
Democrats have already trampled his rights to due process and his rights to legal representation, departing from the precedents in the Nixon and Clinton impeachment inquiries. Pelosi’s new gambit simply adds to those abuses and mocks the ideal of justice.
A fair trial is impossible under such circumstances. Indeed, Pelosi has no intention of providing a fair trial. She is attempting to exert power that she does not even have, according to the Constitution, to dictate the Senate’s trial procedures.
The only “fair trial” possible now must result in a dismissal.