[Skybird]

Its still the same porked and useless impeachment mechanism as last time.

If a crime court's procedures and rules for it are designed to have the case not decided by evidence and an independent judge, but by the number of present audience being fans of the accused or maybe even being members of his criminal clan, and them forming the sworn-ins, then you can leave it alltogether, for this is nothing worth to waste time with.You wont get justice, you wont reach liabiltiy according to the law, and evidence will mean nothing.

You need the rules, the evidence, and both being judged by an independent judge.

But impeachment has no independent judging instance in it, but gets decided by the accused and his people.

A mechanism designed to be pointless and malfunctioning. It does not become any better just by repeating it. It shluld be a safety for the people, to get rid of somebody who they voted for and then showed to be suchh a huige offender that he poses a clear and present danger to the people and the country. It shopuld be a safety to get rid of him BEFORE he has used his full term to maximise hios damages. Ther eshould be hurdles high that preventing oppotunistic abuse in everyday politcla rumbling. But for specila cases as serious as now, the safety function is to be able to get rid of the offender before he can maximise his damage by servign a full term. If this is not understood or wanted, you can delete the whole impeachment rule. Because then impeachment itself has become an opportunistic abuse.

In Italy they have launched a big court case against the Nangdretha/Mafia. Would it have made sense to let Mafia members and family members of the accused having the seats of the judges? No. But with US impeachment and party members of the president deciding whether ti goes ahead or not, leaving the decision to those having own skin in the game, it suddenly should make sense?

An idiotic assumption. The deciding judge, referee, decision maker, must be neither assuser nor defender. Must be a third instance. There is no third instance in impeachement. Thats why in sports referees are ideally free of any affiliations to the playing clubs and teams.

Is there a need for a sports match referee who tells the one team: you can score as many goals as you want, I do not care an dit will not make a difference, I will rate the game as a 0:4 loss agaiunst you anyway, always?

But with such a obscur election system, nothing should suprise there. Its an invitation for abuse and manipulation.