• snownyte@kbin.social
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    6 months ago

    Calling it, they won’t do shit to him. If they do, I might have some faith.

    But after two impeachments, he practically gets away with nearly everything.

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      6 months ago

      In those impeachment, though, he had the protection of 40+ Republican Senators who were afraid of how voting against their guy would affect their reelection. Here, his fate is being decided by 12 Manhattanites who have never met him and have been instructed to set aside their personal opinions on the matter.

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        6 months ago

        and have been instructed to set aside their personal opinions on the matter

        I know there’s a jury selection process for this but I feel like it would still be difficult to do