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How easily this GOP moves on from high crimes | Editorial Updated Jan 26, 2021; Republicans are floating anti-impeachment trial balloons, and here is the essence of their argument: Putting Donald Trump on trial again before the Senate will just make everybody edgy, so let’s agree to move on. That was the proposal Sen. Marco Rubio made Sunday, when he told Fox that “we already have a flaming fire on this country and this is like taking a bunch of gasoline and pouring it on the fire.” Nobody wants a fire. But the constitutional inferno was set by Trump himself, who told an army of gas-fu...

Impeach and Convict Trump. Congress Must Defend Itself. Trump’s incitement of a riot is a violation of the separation of powers that threatens the foundation of the Republic. By Bryan Garsten Jan. 10, 2021 Credit...Erin Schaff/The New York Times It is tempting to try to run out the clock on the Trump presidency. President Trump has already been impeached once and congressional leaders may assume they still lack the necessary Republican votes to convict and remove him in the Senate. Lawmakers concerned about the possibility for new abuses of power before Jan. 20 have been tempted to settle f...