I'm not talking about removal (2/3 majority). I'm talking about legitimizing this whole farce with witnesses (simple majority).
Maybe you don't think that's a big deal. But it does create a dangerous precedent.
By not rejecting these unconstitutional impeachment articles straight away, the Senate will essentially concur with the House's new threshold of impeachment -- a threshold so vague and subjective that anything will be impeachable in the future. A fundamental change in the Constitution via a simple majority vote, without going through the provided means of altering the Constitution -- the amendment process.
That would be a coup against the very Constitution itself!
Not the first one. The federal government is itself way outside of constitutional bounds on many things, including the basic fact it is huge and has fingers in things not in its "limited powers" grant.
I have to admit, "constitutional" is still a useful rhetorical tool, but substantively it is a farce.
If the senate decides this is the new threshold for "hightr croimes and misdemanors," then that's what it becomes.
Congress has already set the precedent that a dual citizen at birth is a natural born citizen. And that was done with ZERO seconds of debate.