Speaking of lies, I saw an
interesting article on NR about an element of the house's case, namely the death of capital police officer Sicknick.
Initial reports said he was beaten during the riot and later passed away from his injuries. This turned out to not be the case, he was apparently fine (the only hard evidence that's publicly available is some texts he sent his family after the riot was over, which said he was fine), and according to unnamed sources, the medical examiner didn't find any blunt force trauma injuries. He just died for some reason at some point on the 7th and no one has explained why.
This is notable because, as the articles notes, the house impeachment case is sticking with the original story, meaning they are either lying, not doing their due diligence when it comes to making their case, or are in possession of information that has been denied to the public.
As for the overall impeachment and charges, I'm starting to think that making the impeachment process a political one instead of a judicial one was a mistake on the part of the founders. We've had, debatably,
one impeachment conducted for something that even vaguely resembles an actual criminal act, and that was Clinton, who was indicted for lying to congress, something that everyone does all the time (or suddenly develops crippling memory problems and are unable to recall a single thing). All of the rest have been done out of purely spiteful partisanship, and only one of them had any chance of actually working, and that was Johnson. Congress, particularly this congress, has proven beyond any doubt that they are not capable of exercising this power responsibly, and IMO the only recourse should be to strip that power from them. If the president has committed crimes, that's impeachable, and the decision of if he's done so and what should happen should be handled by the court system, not congress.