My local newspaper, The Racine Journal Times, posted a guest editorial on February 10 from the New York Daily News in which the writer quoted Federalist Paper number 65 to justify a swift conviction of Ex President Trump. The writer says that Publius (the pseudonym given to the three actual authors of the papers – Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay) described the impeachment power thus, “The subjects of its jurisdiction are those offenses which proceed from the misconduct of public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust. They are of a nature which may with peculiar propriety be denominated POLITICAL, as they relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to the society itself.”
What the writer fails to state though is that in the very same paragraph of 65 it further states, “In many cases it will connect itself with the pre-existing factions, and will enlist all their animosities, partialities, influence, and interest on one side or on the other; and in such cases there will always be the greatest danger that the decision will be regulated more by the comparative strength of parties, than by the real demonstrations of innocence or guilt.”
The very thing that Publius warned against, “…that the decision will be regulated more by the comparative strength of parties, than by the real demonstrations of innocence or guilt” is exactly what is happening in this ridiculous impeachment trial. It will be decided by party rather than by innocence or guilt.
If President Biden really wants to heal a nation torn apart by deep political and racial divisions as he said in his victory speech, this certainly is not the way to do it.
Stop this trial now! And never trust anything the news media prints without checking it out yourself.
The Racinian 
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