{"id":2872,"date":"2019-12-18T18:30:38","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T02:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/?p=2872"},"modified":"2019-12-18T18:30:38","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T02:30:38","slug":"how-history-will-remember-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/?p=2872","title":{"rendered":"How history will remember them \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;\u2026 Equally important, senators acting as jurors in an impeachment trial must take a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thebulwark.com\/the-senate-as-an-impeachment-court-should-not-be-the-senate-as-usual\/\" data-omni-click=\"r'article',r'',d,r'intext',r'29',r'None'\">second oath<\/a>\u00a0as well, required by the Constitution: to \u201cdo impartial justice according to the Constitution and laws, so help me God.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And so senators\u2014especially the Republicans\u2014will face a choice that they should understand goes far beyond politics. They must choose whether to follow the facts, or to follow their fears; to uphold propriety, or to perpetuate partisanship; to champion the truth, or to legitimate lies; to defend the interests of the nation and its Constitution, or the personal interests of one vainglorious man. In short, whether to comply with their solemn oaths, or not.<\/p>\n<p>Should they choose to violate their oaths, history will long remember them for having done so\u2014not simply because of the insurmountable evidence of what Trump has already done, but also because Trump, by his nature, will assuredly do it all again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An excerpt of an article written by George Conway, a Republican, and lawyer working in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>Read the whole article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2019\/12\/house-vote-impeachment-was-inevitable\/603835\/?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=atlantic-daily-newsletter&amp;utm_content=20191218&amp;silverid-ref=NjEyNjU4OTIzODM1S0\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;\u2026 Equally important, senators acting as jurors in an impeachment trial must take a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thebulwark.com\/the-senate-as-an-impeachment-court-should-not-be-the-senate-as-usual\/\" data-omni-click=\"r'article',r'',d,r'intext',r'29',r'None'\">second oath<\/a>\u00a0as well, required by the Constitution: to \u201cdo impartial justice according to the Constitution and laws, so help me God.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And so senators\u2014especially the Republicans\u2014will face a choice that they should understand goes far beyond politics. They must choose whether to follow the facts, or to follow their fears; to uphold propriety, or to perpetuate partisanship; to champion the truth, or to legitimate lies; to defend the interests of the nation and its Constitution, or the personal interests of one vainglorious man. In short,  \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/?p=2872\">Read more\u2026 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3mcOb-Kk","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2873,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872\/revisions\/2873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}