Agreed.But the idea that these articles could ever attract twenty Republican senators is, was, and always will be a joke. Something must be done or this will be “the new normal” of divided government.
I suggest that the Senate hold committee hearings and settle on a new Senate Rule which makes it at least somewhat difficult to get the Senate to take up an impeachment article from the House. Perhaps require a 55-vote majority in the senate before taking an article up . . .
Whereas these impeachment articles seemed to be on autopilot from the moment the Senate received them.
I was replying to the poster who asked if the (current) pope was Catholic. That’s a “no.”