In a despicable, disgusting and deplorable display of demagoguery, 44 useless GQP senators ignored the law, ignored the Constitution, and voted to declare the impeachment trial of the former president unconstitutional. They did this in spite of numerous well respected constitutional scholars declaring that the trial is within the confines of the Constitution. Since it is now clear that these 44 Senate "jurors" have already decided how they will vote on the verdict in this trial, they should be disqualified from sitting on this particular jury.
If you, or I, or anyone else was chosen to sit on a jury, and were discovered to have made a verdict decision before deliberations began, we would be removed from the jury. And if we were found to have attempted to influence other members of the jury as to their verdicts, a mistrial would be declared. Why shouldn't these jurors be held to the same standard?
Before taking their place as a member of the US Senate, each Senator-elect swears an oath, usually with a hand on the Holy Bible that states the following:
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God."
Did those 44 Republicans "support and defend the Constitution" today? Did the 44 "bear true faith and allegiance" to the Constitution today? One of the constitutional duties of a Senator is "to try all Impeachments". When sitting for a trial of impeachment, each Senator (juror) swears a further oath:
"I,____ , do solemnly swear that the return made by me upon the process issued on the day of , by the Senate of the United States, against _____ , is truly made, and that I have performed such service as therein described: so help me God."
Does deciding on the verdict before the trial even begins hold true to this oath? Any adult human capable of rational thought will know the answers to these questions. And the answers will find the 44 severely wanting.
Two oaths, declared before God, were ignored today by 44 US Senators. The coup d'etat attempted on January 6th is still in process. The Republican Party, the GQP, would, if they could find a way, return Donald Trump to the presidency of the United States. They would ignore the legally certified result of the legally conducted election of last November. They would replace the Constitution of the United States with their own petty will.
The Republican Party has become a clear and present danger to the government, and the citizens, of the United States. These traitors, suited, booted, powdered and coiffed, are more dangerous than any of the terrorist thugs who stormed the Capitol last month. The foxes are in the hen house. And 72 million chickens invited them.