re: Trump lawyers respond to articles of impeachment: 'Constitutionally invalid'

Here's the bottom line. The House has impeached the President. But the Senate now makes the rules and calls the shots. It doesn't matter what anyone thinks, it matters what THEY think.

If they decide to not even hear this and tell the House they have no case and to pound sand, that's the end of it.

If they decide to call witnesses or do whatever, that's how it works

They called no witnesses in the Clinton impeachment, and I am thinking that is the likely scenario here. The House managers will say what they have to say and squawk, but at the end of the day The Turtle will point at precedent , they will vote and that will end it.

"He's impeached!" is meaningless. It's the same thing as "He was accused!" But he was not convicted.