"This is a land -- uncharted waters, constitutionally," Graham told reporters. "I just know this, that this matters to the future of the country. We cannot have a system where the House impeaches the president, tells the Senate how to conduct the trial, holds the articles of impeachment over the president's head at a time of their choosing to unleash them." -- Lindsey Graham

Any respect the democrats had during this impeachment trial went out the fucking window the second they decided to withhold the articles of impeachment from the Senate.

It is exactly this sort of manipulation of the system that got Trump elected int eh first place, people wanting him to "clear the swamp" and while I dont think Trump is delivering on that promise, the promise alone got him elected.

Man the democrats dont know WTF they are doing anymore, no wonder Trump got elected.

@freemo Didn't the Senate Majority Leader say that he will not be impartial? It seems kind of reasonable not to let someone who claims this explicitly pass judgement. Although using legal tricks to do that is disappointing, I don't see how else they could have avoided that.

Eh, no idea, I'm very disappointed by more and more politicians all over the world ignoring the spirit and even sometimes rule of law. I feel like one "side" (broadly speaking, since I'm talking abut many parts of the world) is doing this much more, but there are obvious reasons why I might be biased.