It's starting to look as if the House vote to impeach President Trump is the impeachment that wasn't. That's the word from a lot of legal scholars, including Noah Feldman, who was one of the three leftist professors who spoke before the House Judiciary Committee, arguing for impeaching Trump shortly before the Democrats' deed was done. In a Bloomberg column, Feldman wrote: Impeachment as contemplated by the Constitution does not consist merely of the vote by the House, but of the process of sending the articles to the Senate for trial. Both parts are necessary to make an impeachment under the Constitution: The House must actually send the articles and send managers to the Senate to prosecute the impeachment. And the Senate must actually hold a trial. ...and... But if the House never sends the articles, then Trump could say with strong justification that he was never actually impeached. And that's probably not the message...(Read Full Post)