Opinion: Stop calling impeachment a political decision
The Mueller report on April 18. By Danielle Allen Danielle Allen Contributing columnist Bio Follow May 16 at 3:32 PM We live in an age of corruption. The age has a soundtrack, with earworms. Among the most insidious is that various important decisions are mainly political. Not legal. Not moral. Not constitutional. So deeply has this idea penetrated that it is now articulated by many who are far removed from the actual practice of corrupt and amoral decision-making.
In fact, impeachment is a constitutional mechanism, and the Constitution is a legal document. Impeachment is the legal mechanism designed by the framers to permit the republic to hold the president accountable for wrongdoing while in office. True, impeachment does not proceed through the court system — but that makes it no less legal. True, impeachment is a mechanism assigned to Congress, and therefore to elected politicians.
In fact, “it” — whatever “it” may be — does not all come down to politics. There are always political elements to our choices, but those should be a matter of tactics, not objectives. Those who think that impeachment, or sending a subpoena to Trump Jr., or holding Attorney General William P. Barr in contempt, reduces to a set of political choices confuse two different elements of decision-making.Human beings are purposive creatures.
But it’s our overarching purposes that shape our world. If we pursue the common good, and find politically effective ways of doing that, we build healthy societies. The view that everything is “just politics” reduces the world to the amoral pursuit of power or domination over others. If we pursue only power for our party, we create a world riven by amoral efforts at mutual destruction. In other words, we bring war inside our walls.
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