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To: Chief Justice John Roberts, Judiciary Chairman Lindsay Graham, Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein, U.S. Senators
Mitch McConnell must recuse himself from Senate Impeachment Trial
Senator Mitch McConnell, majority leader of the U.S. Senate, admitted on national television that he plans to advise and coordinate directly with the White House counsel on how to manage and litigate the trial for the impeachment of Donald Trump, as required by the Articles of Impeachment passed by the House of Representatives.
Due to this obvious statement of a conflict of interest and flagrant misuse of his office, we must demand that the Senate majority leader recuse himself from the upcoming Senate trial.
Why is this important?
For the leader of the Senate to openly and arrogantly claim that he, as a juror, has no problem collaborating directly with a defendant's counsel is not only an abuse of power in itself, it completely violates his own oath of office to defend the separation of powers as defined in the articles of the Constitution of the United States.
Congress has its own independent authority. It does not work for the White House, nor does it belong to any particular political party. Supporting this notion is exactly the reason why three separate branches of government were established by our Founding Fathers and why they must maintain oversight of one another.
If the White House can simply refuse oversight and obstruct Congress, while those within Congress openly allow this simply due to party loyalty, then We, as a republic, are doomed to become that from which our nation's founders fought to liberate us. If our congressional leaders refuse to defend the Constitution, then We, the American People, regardless of our political affiliations, must do so ourselves.
You can watch Sen. McConnell speak about his planned total coordination with the White House counsel in his own words here: