Five Republicans voted with all 50 Democrats to continue the Senate’s impeachment trial. Fox News reports 45 Republicans voted for a Rand Paul motion that found it unconstitutional to impeach a former president. The list of shame is as follows:
Five GOP senators voted not to dismiss the impeachment trial of President Trump: Susan Collins, Maine, Lisa Murkowski, Alaska, Ben Sasse, Neb., Pat Toomey, Pa., and Mitt Romney, Utah.
I’ll be disappointed if any of those RINOs doesn’t face a serious primary challenge to their next reelection effort. Disloyal votes should draw negative consequences, of which none is more bitter than a career-ending repudiation by one’s own party.
Later ... This article in The Hill says actually six GOP senators voted for a trial, not 5, and includes Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), about whom I admit knowing nothing.
