The Democrats’ Missed Opportunity on Impeachment
Today’s House Judiciary Committee hearing served to reinforce the partisan divide over President Trump’s conduct rather than challenge it.
This hearing was never going to change minds.
Its purpose was not to produce damning new revelations or dramatic testimony. Unlike during the Intelligence Committee hearings last month, the public did not hear new facts from key witnesses, only legal opinions from a group of law professors explaining the history of impeachment as they evaluated the case against President Donald Trump.
Yet as constructed by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, a Democrat
