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In reply to the discussion: A Majority of House Democrats Do Not Support Impeachment. [View all]standingtall
(2,785 posts)Mason, Madison, and Randolph all spoke up to defend impeachment on July 20, after Charles Pinckney of South Carolina and Gouverneur Morris of Pennsylvania moved to strike it. [If the president] should be re-elected, that will be sufficient proof of his innocence, Morris argued. [Impeachment] will render the Executive dependent on those who are to impeach.
Shall any man be above justice? Mason asked. Shall that man be above it who can commit the most extensive injustice? A presidential candidate might bribe the electors to gain the presidency, Mason suggested. Shall the man who has practiced corruption, and by that means procured his appointment in the first instance, be suffered to escape punishment by repeating his guilt?
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/inside-founding-fathers-debate-over-what-constituted-impeachable-offense-180965083/
A very similar argument was made and shot down by George Mason at the constitutional convention
Trump will claim exoneration regardless and I believe his lies will have more credibility if we don't impeach. We can put a failed impeachment on the republican senate. If we don't impeach we will get all the blame for it.