{"id":39937,"date":"2019-11-22T04:01:01","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T04:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=39937"},"modified":"2019-11-22T04:01:01","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T04:01:01","slug":"is-this-a-case-of-jury-tampering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=39937","title":{"rendered":"Is this a case of ‘jury tampering’?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Hey, hold on for just a minute or maybe two!<\/p>\n

The House of Representatives is getting ready to impeach the president of the United States in connection with allegations that he solicited a personal political favor from a foreign government. Once the House approves the impeachment articles, the matters goes to the Senate, which then will have a trial.<\/p>\n

Why, then, is Donald Trump schmoozing with “jurors” who will have to weigh the evidence presented to them and decide whether to convict him of assorted high crimes and misdemeanors.<\/p>\n

Trump launched a charm offensive<\/a> by inviting some Republican senators to the White House. He talked with them — privately, of course. Some of those GOP lawmakers include at least a couple of them who might be inclined to want to convict the president. I refer to Mitt Romney of Utah and Susan Collins of Maine. Hey, there might be a lame-duck GOP senator in the mix, too.<\/p>\n

I know it’s not a fully legal<\/em> proceeding that the Senate will launch. It’s a political<\/em> one, steeped in partisanship. However, some legal principles are brought into play here. One of them surely must be this quaint idea that “defendants” shouldn’t “tamper” with the jury pool.<\/p>\n

The Senate’s 100 members are going to serve as jurors in this upcoming trial. The Republican<\/em> members need not hear sweet nothings whispered into their ears by the Republican<\/em> president whose conduct in office has brought us to this sorry and sad chapter of our nation’s political life.<\/p>\n\n

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