Sen. Jon Ossoff signals support for Trump impeachment

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16. During the first two years of Biden's term, Democrats had the power to make Trump completely ineligible to run.

The moves required would have involved some risk, anything worth doing usually does. We saw his first term disaster, he was impeached twice, and he was pronounced as an existential threat to democracy when he instigated and carried our an insurrection.

Within the power of the Democrats who held a slim majority in both houses, was the ability to amend the judiciary act to increase the number of seats on the Supreme Court, which would have allowed Biden to appoint justices respecting the rule of law. To get that through the senate would have required eliminating the filibuster. Both of those were risky, but both were the only options available, and I think the risk was well worth preventing the outcome we now have, of Trump getting back to the White House. Don't you?

Once the court was packed, they could have cut through his delays, gotten his insurrection trial underway. I've heard legal experts say that with the evidence Congress provided in their investigation, a mountain of it, the Supreme Court could have taken the case and ruled on it themselves, along with the documents case against him. He goes to prison, but more importantly, is no longer eligible to run for public office. The court would also never have issued the immunity ruling that they did. And we would have saved Roe. In fact, neutralizing the corrupt justices on the court might have pushed them to resign.

Why did we not accomplish this? Because the old line Democrats who still think compromise across the aisle works, thought it would "look political." And old line Democrats in the Senate, Schumer, Durbin, sided with Biden in not wanting to get rid of the filibuster. That was more important to them than saving America's democracy.