Opinion: Censuring Trump? Never gonna happen (via latimesopinion)
Sen. Joe Manchin III thinks it’s time to try again. And he’s not alone. But no matter how badly President Trump’s actions relative to Ukraine cry out for an official condemnation from Congress, censure is a political non-starter that undervalues what the House has already done on the issue.vote to censure Trump
Beyond that, a resolution to censure Trump would have the advantage of needing only 51 votes, not the 67 required to convict an impeached president. As Democrats have known since Day 1, finding 20 Senate Republicans willing to convict Trump will be harder than finding 20 volunteers to test an Ebola vaccine.Judging by the comments Republican senators have made in recent days, there could be well more than 51 votes to censure Trump, if that option presented itself.
The way things are playing out currently, Trump is sure to be acquitted by the Senate on Wednesday, with the articles of impeachment failing to obtain even a simple majority. In fact, chances are good that some Democrats will join Republicans in voting against the articles, as was in the case in the House. Such a result would enable the president to claim not just that he was exonerated, but that the opposition to the House’s work wasThat’s the best possible outcome for Trump.
Things might have been different had the House censured Trump instead of impeaching him. As a group, Republican senators haven’t been so quick to parrot the arguments by Trump’s defense team as their House counterparts were. The nothing-to-see-here assertion that played so well with the likes of Rep. Jim Jordan had far fewer takers in the upper body. Instead, as Murkowski’s comments indicated, the issue for many senators was whether Trump’s misdeeds were bad enough to justify removal.
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