The Republican rebuttal should be something special.

[OAITW r.2.0]

After decades of marketing themselves as "the Constitutional Party", they are going to now argue that the Constitution doesn't matter in this case, because Trump?

[Towlie]

1. Chewbacca Defense

Wikipedia: The Chewbacca Defense

[Irish_Dem]

2. They will claim victim status and blame everyone else.

Typical sociopaths.

[lagomorph777]

5. Technically, the entire Senate are victims of Trump's crime.

[Irish_Dem]

6. Yes.

[Faux pas]

3. I

won't be listening to them, they have nothing useful to offer. I'll get the sound bites later.

[Irish_Dem]

4. I won't listen either. Will just be typical crime family defense.

[lindysalsagal]

7. The "how dare you prevent healing and unity" defense

Followed by cherry-picked misleading quotes by irrelevant former dems that we're too late, and the trial would be "damaging".