its useful, VERY useful in driving the base to vote... and the next election... where if accused in the house, and acquitted (most certitainly), will put enough issues on the table that many marginal democrats and milque toast republican biden supporters... will wince at the optics.
it makes is harder to cheat.
It’s a BS maneuver from a party that doesn’t have policies people want to vote for.
But, I guess the GOP could run on abortion again. That’s always. Big winner.
If I were the Dems, I would get abortion and legalized week on every ballot possible.