Let us suppose the House of Representatives votes for impeachment and the process moves to the Senate. From my understanding, this is an actual trial. The impaneled “jury” would be the sitting Senators – all 100 of them.
Now, let’s look at the witnesses. They are the same lot that testified in front of the so-called “Intelligence” Committee under the chairmanship of Adam Schiff. A simple question is in play. If they only have second and third hand accounts coupled with “presumptions”, “assumptions” and “conclusions”, the attorney for the President would only need to object to such “hearsay” and get whatever muck these rakers are trying to get into the record disallowed.
Now, if each and every one of these “witnesses” have their “hearsay” disallowed, there would be an interesting situation. Chief Justice Roberts, when charging the jury made up of Senators, would certainly tell them that they could only consider evidence properly presented. They would be admonished to not consider anything inadmissable and struck down by the court in coming up with a verdict.
Thus, with no actual evidence, the Senators would be compelled to vote “Not Guilty”…..or would they?
Considering that the vast majority of these Seantors are actual attorneys, you would surmise they would follow the charging instructions of Chief Roberts. But they are also politicians – and they will lie/distort when it suits their purposes. Watch CNN or MSNBC any day and you will see “legal experts” regaling us with the idea that these witnesses are putting forth powerful “evidence” – all the while knowing such garbage will never see the inside of a courtroom. These Democrat Senators are cut from the same cloth – they will vote to convict based on NOTHING – and in the process bastardize our system of justice………..
………..And they will do so in the name of trying to obtain political power. Shameful.