STEVE SCAKISE, the House Minority Whip, brought a visual aid to the House floor in the run-up to a vote formalising the impeachment inquiry. It depicted the Red Square's onion domes, and blasted the Democrats' "37 Days of Soviet-Style Impeachment Proceedings". Though the Soviet Union lacked a constitutional mechanism whereby freely elected legislators could censure and remove the country's executive, following months of open hearings and a public trial, Mr Scalise's point was that the impeachment process—which has so-far operated behind closed doors—is some kind of show trial.
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