re: SCOTUS isn’t going to mess with immunity

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Hastings lawyers argued immunity and then went on to win the case.

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He lost his immunity argument, though, which is all that matters for this thread.

We all know he was acquitted. I included that in my original questions to you. If he was immune, it would have never reached the point to permit him to be acquitted.

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I feel pretty good about my interpretation.

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Are you changing it? I quoted you several times. All were proven wrong in this case.

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The people who see it your way also moved forward with charging an innocent man.

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Criminal innocence in a criminal matter has no bearing on the political determination of an impeachment proceeding. Again, that is the entire point of the clause. There is no relationship between the two (and there certainly isn't a "colon" requirement that the conviction in the Senate occur prior to the criminal prosecution).