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As an illustration of just how undemocratic the Senate is, the 57 Senators voting to convict represents nearly 70% of Americans.
Yet, Senators representing just over 30% got their way. smh
@peterdrake I was thinking about this today - isn't it fairly normal though? Whether it's 57% or 70%, it wouldn't be enough for a conviction under most legal proceedings. Civilian trials generally require jurors to be unanimous for a conviction, and even military trials have a sliding scale which only goes down to 67% for the least severe offences.
Admittedly, this result would elsewhere have resulted in a hung jury and mistrial, resulting in the possibility of retrial, but since Trump can't be indicted again as he's no longer President, it comes to the same thing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hung_jury#United_States