THREAD/RANT:

1) Could people please stop making factual/legal errors all over the place this morning? I have a headache already. *grumble*

2) An impeachment in a presidential prosecution is like an indictment in a criminal prosecution. It means that enough evidence exists to hold a trial. It doesn't mean the president is necessarily guilty of a crime. The House impeaches. Then we switch to the Senate for the Trial.

3) Impeached presidents can do anything a non-impeached president can do. Unless convicted & removed from office by the Senate, impeachment means literally nothing about power/ability to act. It means a loss of reputation. That's all.

4) In Trump's case, the Senate voted to acquit - find him not guilty - of the crimes with which the House charged him. He's still president. He can do anything any other president could do, including run again in 2024. Saying anything to the contrary is silly.

5) Do I like it? Do I think it's right? No. I think the Senate should have convicted Trump.

I'm not in the Senate, I d/n get to vote. I bet you d/n either.

6) Immunity from prosecution, on the one hand, and a pardon, on the other, are very different things.

6A) Immunity means you can't be sued/charged/taken to court, period. You're off the hook for any sort of liability criminal or civil. You c/n be convicted in the 1st place.

6B) A pardon means you were convicted or took a plea deal in a criminal case, & accepted liability, but your crimes have been forgiven. It d/n wipe away the conviction, it just means you d/n serve the sentence for it.

7) Evidence v. relevance. Something can be "evidence" and yet be irrelevant. If I produce an affidavit saying that my cat, Smudge, tipped over my trash at midnight, that's "evidence." But it isn't relevant to the issue of whether or not there was fraud in the election.

8) Testimony, verbal or by affidavit, about the wearing of rhinestones or BLM T-shirts by election monitors, or US Mail crates in the back of a pickup truck, etc., is all "evidence," sure. But what is it evidence OF, exactly?

9) It's evidence of the thing stated - that someone wore something, or had something in their truck. Period.

How is that evidence *relevant* to the issue of whether the election was fraudulent? It isn't.

10) No matter how loud you scream at me, or the election commissioners, or whoever you're testifying to/protesting in front of, that doesn't change.