Opinion: Today's impeachment hearing wasn't actually a hearing (via latimesopinion)
Similarly, Republicans spent their time decrying the hearings and pumping their one sympathetic witness, George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley, to agree that the Democrats were engaged in an unholy rush to take out a president they despise. Rep. Mike Johnson , indicting himself as well as his colleagues, put it this way: “As has been highlighted so many times today, this whole production is a sham, and a reckless path to a predetermined outcome ....
Silly me, I cared! But aside from a clever rebuttal of one of Turley’s arguments by Rep. Eric Swawell , the members seemed to treat the witnesses like props who were there to back up the narrative they were intent on advancing Wednesday. Even given the limitations of the witnesses, much more good could have come from the hearing had lawmakers been legitimately curious, humbled by the responsibility before them and uncomfortable with the magnitude of the decision they must make. Had that been the case, they would have pushed back against the experts.
Democrats would have asked Turley what sort of evidence he would need to see before believing Trump had improperly solicited Ukraine’s help in his reelection bid, and what the House should do in the face of the complete and unrelenting obstruction from the White House.
That would have been an actual hearing, not an exchange of lectures. The result might have been the same for members of the committee, but different for members of the public.
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