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A Guide to the (Latest) Impeachment Trial

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The First Impeachment Trial

A case for the president's defense team is going to argue both that the senate doesn't have the right to try a former president and that everything he said is protected anyway. But you moigt think anyone who has been through a high school civic class knows that when it comes to free speech not all of it is protected, yes. So where does that leave us, knowing what the senate is about to acquit trump for having done? I think what we have to grapple with is what we now consider status quo political speech. It basically boils down to he is just another american citizen voicing his view under the constitutional right to do so....

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