Emerging reports suggest that Democrats are zeroing in on a single “abuse of power” impeachment count, based on President Trump’s attempts to strong-arm Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky into delivering dirt on Biden, a leading candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination. But this is a disadvantageous argument for Democrats — not because they’re wrong, but because it plays into a Republican strategy of sowing legal doubt. The apparent Ukrainian shakedown is precisely the sort that the framers used to justify the political remedy of impeachment. ADAnd the Democrats are being thoughtful not only in conceiving the theory of the case, but in assembling the evidence to serve it. ADOn that day, the Trump loyalist cries of “no quid pro quo” will sound silly.

Source: Washington Post October 22, 2019 22:52 UTC