found online by Raymond
From Jonathan Bernstein:
On the merits, the president’s defenders can’t come up with much. That’s not a good sign.
I’ve argued that the House shouldn’t begin formal impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump at this point because few if any Senate Republicans have indicated that they’d be willing to consider the evidence, and therefore impeachment and removal simply isn’t available.
But what about on the merits? One way to judge the strength of the case for impeachment is to consider the case made against it by the president’s defenders. And so far, at least, their arguments are awfully weak.