some leading members of GOP leadership voicing concerns about setting a precedent of ousting a lawmaker who had not been convicted of a crime.
The thing about ethics rules is that they are more expansive than legal rules. If you are just going to defer to the legal system, why have any ethical rules at all?
There are all sorts of things that are awful, but still legal. If a Representative marched down 5th Avenue in a literal swastika-and-iron-cross nazi parade, I would hope they would be expelled, despite being a legal (though reprehensible) exercise in free speech.
And because that’s how they did it, they find it perfectly normal and natural to say that ANY action against trump whatsoever must be based on made up lies.
The thing about ethics rules is that they are more expansive than legal rules. If you are just going to defer to the legal system, why have any ethical rules at all?
There are all sorts of things that are awful, but still legal. If a Representative marched down 5th Avenue in a literal swastika-and-iron-cross nazi parade, I would hope they would be expelled, despite being a legal (though reprehensible) exercise in free speech.
The same GOP tried to impeach Biden based on conspiracy theories they made up themselves
And because that’s how they did it, they find it perfectly normal and natural to say that ANY action against trump whatsoever must be based on made up lies.