and accuse the president in the name of the people and in the senate would be a neutral body, almost like the supreme court completely free of partisanship that would evaluate the facts neutrally. alexander hamilton says in federalist 63, what other body than the senate can be trusted to have the necessary impartial alt to adjudicate between the accuseded and the accuser, namely, the people. in a world of political parties and of intense partisanship in the senate, there's a real question as the house collects facts after facts and presents them to the senate, can we trust the senate to evaluate neutrally? the prospect of them dismissing the charges with a simple vote without having clear hearings completely goes in the face of what alexander hamilton and the framers expected. so we have a system set up on the expectation that there would be a neutral decider. that is not our situation right now. and that's what makes it so dramatic to find a cascade of fact after fact, day after day and to wonder in the end who