Impeach without a Senate trial? The Left’s new idea to waste time

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Each time a liberal makes the case for impeachment, it’s ever more clear that the intent behind it isn’t earnest. There will be no real effort to remove President Trump from office, just an attempt to signal their disdain and embarrass Republicans.

Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe wrote in the Washington Post on Wednesday that House Democrats might go though an impeachment hearing, vote on a resolution concluding that Trump is guilty (of what, exactly, remains a mystery) and then simply stop short of referring the matter to the Senate for trial.

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