so, where the process has a foregone conclusion, is there a better resolution? mark thesen, conservative columnist for the "washington post" recently suggested that democrats pursue an alternative, censure. in his piece, why don't democrats drop impeachment and just censure trump, he argues that unlike the mueller probe, this time, trump actually did something wrong, but that a minority of americans see it as worthy of impeachment. "if democrats persist and to prove articles of impeachment, it will be a purely symbolic act, a way to publicly censure the president for his actions with regard to ukraine. so, why not drop impeachment and censure him instead?" thiessen sees precedent. in 1834, the senate voted to censure president andrew jackson for stonewalling a congressional investigation into why he shut down the second bank of the united states. trump would be only the second president in history so reprimanded and it would put