Before you can even legitimate get to the Senate to try the impeachment charges, you have to have a constitutional and legitimate impeachment process which this is not.
Explanation:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3800593/posts?page=48#48
That’s nice but it’s still going to go to the senate.
I believe that explanation is incorrect. Impeachment is a political process and not a criminal one. So the Bill of Rights and other safeguards do not apply.
Like it or not, the Constitution gives the House the absolute power to impeach. Benjamin Franklin even once remarked that the House could impeach a president just for being rude.
Now having said that, impeachment should only occur when doing it is what’s best for the country. That’s obviously not the case here.