Yesterday's Senate impeachment "trial" made two things clear: Trump did exactly what was alleged (though we knew that since we watched it on TV), and Republican senators are too scared of Republican voters that guilt or innocence doesn't matter to them.
The theater that happened on Tuesday was about constitutionality, but it was even more about basic logic. No working legal system can support "windows of opportunity" to break laws, particularly for elected or appointed officials of the government who are near the end of their time in office.
I see that a 94-year-old German woman was charged with WWII crimes just this past week. Yes, she was a secretary, and yes, she is old enough that we might think that putting her on trial doesn't seem cost-effective or satisfying.
But the German authorities are honor-bound to press the case.
Imagine this as a thought exercise: every senator -- all 100 -- votes to convict the former president and prohibit him from running for public office again. Would the nation stand?
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