On Saturday, February 13, the U.S. Senate, by a 57-43 vote, found former President Trump guilty of charges of “willfully inciting violence against the Government of the United States.”  The margin, however,  fell ten short of the 67 votes needed under Article II, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution to convict under impeachment proceedings.  Senate Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell voted to acquit, but then castigated the former President in a floor speech, a maneuver Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi blasted as “disingenuous.”  Trump now becomes the first U.S. President to be impeached — and acquitted — twice.  Joining us once more to make sense of all this and to put it all in historical perspective is University of Wisconsin – Madison Political Scientist Eleanor Neff Powell.

Photo of U.S. Capitol insurrection by Tyler Merbler, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons