Partisanship Vs. the Constitution

Donald Trump‘s defense team appealed for a quick acquittal. "It will show that you put the Constitution above partisanship," White House counsel Pat Cipollone told senators in his closing remarks. 

 

The hypocrisy on display here is just staggering.

 

That the Senate Republicans were prepared to vote in favor of Donald Trump before one word was uttered by the defense is the very definition of putting partisanship above the Constitution. 

 

That the defense team spent more time casting aspersions against Joe Biden and Barack Obama than actually addressing and refuting the impeachment charges against Donald Trump is a most flagrant demonstration of putting partisanship above the Constitution. 

 

That the impeachment managers laid out a detailed and compelling case against Donald Trump only to be dismissed by Senate Republicans for “not doing their homework”, that is putting partisanship above the Constitution at its most appallingly obvious.

 

Even as the impeachment managers are putting forth their case with more troubling allegations (from Lev Parnas and John Bolton) pointing to Trump’s malfeasance, Senate Republicans’ resistance to call for witnesses in the impeachment trial is the very model of putting partisanship above the Constitution. 

 

In the battle of Partisanship Vs. the Constitution, Partisanship is still on it’s feet, smugly smiling with hardly a cut or bruise while the Constitution lays bloody, beaten and gasping for breath on the mat.