A root confusion Trump's lawyers are trying to exploit is between a legal trial and a political trial. Impeachment is a political trial but they keep insisting on using the procedures of a criminal or civil legal trial, which don't apply. https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1360611122294972417
The word trial has roots that go deeper than the law and extend beyond it. A trial is contestation: Trial by combat. A trial in court is one form of contestation but not the only one. Impeachment is trial in parliament, with its own set of rules (which parliament sets)
Trump's lawyers, either as a strategy of deception or because they are incredibly stupid (maybe both!), keep talking about a political trial as if it were a court trial. Exploiting "law & order" brain by talking about due process, 1st Amendment, deposing witnesses, etc.
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