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Analysis: Impeachment proves imperfect amid US polarization

by Julie Pace
| February 16, 2021 12:03 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Three Republican senators spent an hour talking strategy with lawyers for the accused. The entire Senate served as jurors even though they were also targets of the crime. No witnesses were called. And the outcome was never in doubt.

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