The only question that matters in Trump's impeachment trial

In a Dec. 27 op-ed for The Bulwark, I wrote:

Should President Donald Trump be removed from office? Much has been written on this question, but the vast majority of it deals in secondary and tertiary matters about politics and gamesmanship and tribal law.

And to answer the real question—the primary question—you have to strip all of those other considerations away.

Read the whole thing here.