Analysis: The point of impeachment isn't to punish a president, legal scholars told lawmakers Wednesday, but to protect the country from further damage. - jonallendc
A fourth witness, George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley, argued that Democrats' impeachment push was being rushed at the expense of fact-gathering and that the House Intelligence Committee's end of the investigation had not produced clear and convincing evidence of impeachable offenses by Trump.Democrats weren't expecting Turley to be helpful to their cause, and they largely avoided asking him questions during the marathon hearing, which began at 10 a.m.
He pointed to the period when the Constitution was being drafted and its framers' determination to ensure that the new nation's citizenry would not be subjects of a monarch after having won the Revolutionary War against King George III. Melania Trump responded on Twitter, saying Karlan"should be ashamed" of her “obviously biased public pandering" in referring to Barron Trump.Karlan took a moment during the hearing to offer an apology.
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