we can possibly look forward to a two step procedure:
1. pass a motion to request, by a date certain in the very near future, all evidence from the house investigations, including any and all exculpatory evidence; and
2. when the date comes, but the missing evidence is not provided, pass a motion to dismiss for lack of complete (that is, including any and all exculpatory) evidence.
an observation is that following this procedure involves calling no new witnesses (lindsey gets a reprieve).
Part 2 of this should be vote to acquit, not vote to dismiss. The reason is, a dismissal would mean the house can bring it up again in the future, and keep on impeaching. With an acquittal they can’t.
we can possibly look forward to a two step procedure
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The only steps the Republicans in the senate will be taking are steps backwards.
also, congress is its own controlling legal authority on impeachment procedure. if the procudure is flawed, such as with failure to produce exculpatory evidence, then only congress has the lawful power to remedy the failure. in this case, if the house procedure is flawed, then only the senate has the authority to nullify its effects (the impeachment). the senate should dismiss the impeachment charges, hold the pelosi and the house impeachment managers in contempt of congress, declare them vexatious litigants, barring them from bringing forward any future impeachments for life, affirm that trump is innocent until judged guilty in the full senate of any such charges, and dismiss the charges with prejudice. not to execute full authority to dismiss charges will encourage house democrats to try repeatedly again and it would also set a bad precedent for all future impeachments. then the senate should table permanently the house resolution to ban trump from the office of president (since at that point, to consider passing it would be ludicrous on its face).