Senate Democrats can’t get their message straight. Is the Senate impeachment process like a court trial with senators serving as impartial jurors? Or is President Trump axiomatically as guilty as sin?

Ahead of the Senate trial, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, in a moment of candor, declared, “I’m not an impartial juror. This is a political process. There is not anything judicial about it. Impeachment is a political decision.”