“If you find him guilty, then you must remove him from office because right matters, and the truth matters, otherwise, we are lost.”
Those were the final words of Rep. Adam Schiff last night on day three of Donald Trump’s impeachment trial in the Senate.
He was answering the fundamental question before the Senate: “Does Trump really need to be removed from office?”
This is the question because, as Schiff pointed out, there is no doubt that Trump is guilty of the charges against him. Everyone knows that, though many keep denying they do.
The Senators sitting as jurors in this trial, Schiff added, know that they cannot trust Donald Trump to do what is right for this country, that what they can trust is that he will do what is right for Donald Trump.
Doing right for the country matters. If it doesn’t, Schiff passionately declared, then “the Constitution cannot protect us.”
At a basic level, then, this trial is about whether or not the current Senators – Republican and Democratic alike – believe the Constitution matters.
Because of the overwhelming and irrefutable evidence already presented that would be bolstered by additional documents and witnesses, anyone voting to acquit Trump will be making an unequivocal statement that the Constitution does not matter to them.
In addition, this trial is about whether or not we, the American people, sitting as jurors of Trump and our own Senators, believe the Constitution matters.
If we do, then we must hold every Senator accountable for his or her vote.
So we are witnessing more than the impeachment trial of Donald Trump. We are witnessing the trial of every current United States Senator AND the trial of every American eligible to vote in November.
This truly is history in the making that will tell future generations whether or not any of us living in this moment believed that right mattered.
And, at the end of the day, that is all that matters.
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