"This is a comment attributed to Trent Lott by the House managers of the impeachment of Bill Clinton.
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Oh, OK. I thought you were talking about President Bush. Don't scare me like that.
Seriously, that quote, especially paraphrases, isn't well enough known to be posted without comment, I think.
Before your time I guess, I should have noticed. It was whipped to death on this forum.
The point was that impeachment is always political, the courts have no say. As you may have noticed every Senator had to take a new oath to set on the impeachment panel, then blithely went and broke it the next day.