When the rules bend, accountability breaks

THE Senate may explain each procedural shift, but together they risk turning impeachment from a constitutional trial into a test of political trust. If a referee lowered the winning score after play had begun, rearranged the sequence of the game, and then erased points one side still wanted to contest, the crowd would not call it procedure. It would call it manipulation. That is the danger now facing the Senate. The issue is not whether impeachment is a valid constitutional weapon. It is whether

THE Senate may explain each procedural shift, but together they risk turning impeachment from a constitutional trial into a test of political trust. If a referee lowered the winning score after play had begun, rearranged the sequence of the game, and then erased points one side still wanted to contest, the crowd would not call it procedure. It would call it manipulation. That is the danger now facing the Senate. The issue is not whether impeachment is a valid constitutional weapon. It is whether