Noah Feldman, Columnist

Trump’s Lawyers Are Helping Advance Impeachment’s Purpose

They admit that the attempt to disrupt the democratic process was a threat to democracy itself.

February 10, 2021 at 4:34 PM UTC

Noah Feldman is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A professor of law at Harvard University, he is author, most recently, of “To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People."

It’s not what he says, but what he implies.
Source: Senate Television/Bloomberg

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The opening of former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial highlighted three realities: The breach of the Capitol on Jan. 6 was a horrific episode that both mainstream political parties reject. Trump’s lawyers are woefully unprepared. And enough Republican senators will claim the trial is unconstitutional to assure that Trump won’t be convicted.

So, what’s the point of the rest of the trial?