Noah Feldman, Columnist

Roy Moore's Future Is an Ugly Fight in the Senate

There's little precedent for a trial to expel a lawmaker in such a partisan moment with changing cultural norms.

November 14, 2017 at 10:28 PM UTC

Corrected

November 15, 2017 at 2:30 AM 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."

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Fasten your seatbelts. If all the relevant actors are guided primarily by their political self-interest, Roy Moore is headed for the U.S. Senate. And if that happens, we are in for a major national fight about expelling him from his seat, which could function as a partial preview of an impeachment trial of President Donald Trump.

The logic behind this analysis is that Moore will almost certainly be elected in Alabama’s special election next month. It’s effectively too late for Republicans to stage a write-in campaign against him even if they wanted to try.