Axios quotes Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer as tweeting, “Trials have witnesses and documents. Cover-ups don’t.” Yes, they do, Chuck, if the prosecution brings them as part of their charges, and they must be disclosed. It’s called “discovery”: the 6th Amendment right of the accused “to be confronted with the witnesses against him”. Shoddy charges leads to quick dismissal. A judge would discard the charges if prosecutors approached the bench with a demand to start the trial on the basis of unknown and thus undisclosed witnesses and documents because the current batch is a joke.
Chuck, you must be admitting that your charges are empty. Result: “Case dismissed!”
A proper legal response would be to take the embarrassing things back and continue your years-long inquisition to find something that will sell, anything. But from here on, though, a Congressional session (2 years) will be devoted to a little bit of legislation and a lot of impeachment.
Congressional public approval is in the toilet. After this becomes a permanent agenda item, Congress’s positives will make their way to the sewage treatment plant.
RogerG