{"id":11724,"date":"2020-02-05T15:16:41","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T20:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11724"},"modified":"2020-02-05T15:16:41","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T20:16:41","slug":"quote-for-the-day-ii-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11724","title":{"rendered":"Quote for the day, II"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>The defense argues that the Senate should leave the impeachment decision to the voters. While that logic is appealing to our democratic instincts, it is inconsistent with the Constitution\u2019s requirement that <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">the Senate, not the voters, try the president<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/02\/05\/mitt-romney-impeachment-vote-speech-transcript-110849\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mitt Romney<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Note that: When a senator says &#8220;let the voter&#8217;s decide,&#8221; the senator is shirking his duty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The defense argues that the Senate should leave the impeachment decision to the voters. While that logic is appealing to our democratic instincts, it is inconsistent with the Constitution\u2019s requirement that the Senate, not the voters, try the president. Mitt &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11724\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11724"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11724"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11726,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11724\/revisions\/11726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}