[maxwellsmart_agent]

What must happen is that the Republicans in the Senate must refuse to take part in an unConstitutional impeachment trial. They must refuse to be seated for this Schumer-Pelosi sham. The democrats have no legal standing to hold this trial if the Chief Justice John Roberts starts the ball rolling by refusing to take part. When Roberts refuses, the Republicans have every right to refuse. If Joe Biden was a real man, he would step in now and say to Schumer and Pelosi lets grow up and stop this nonsense right now.

[Verginius Rufus]

They only need two-thirds of the senators present. So if the Republicans absent themselves, they could get 100% of those present to vote "guilty." That would obviously be a travesty but they saw nothing wrong with ramming through the second impeachment in seven hours without Trump being permitted to make a defense.

Lewis Carroll, you should be living at this hour.