Think Progress notes the following statement by Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson on Meet the Press:
I certainly hope that if there is going to be an indictment that says something happened, that it is an indictment on a crime and not some perjury technicality where they couldn’t indict on the crime so they go to something just to show that their two years of investigation were not a waste of time and dollars.I guess that means that Senator Hutchinson voted to convict a President and remove him from office on a technicality.
Update: Via Susie, we find that on the floor of the Senate during the impeachment trial, Senator Breck Girl said the following:
The edifice of American jurisprudence rests on the foundation of the due process of law. The mortar in that foundation is the oath. Those who seek to obstruct justice weaken that foundation, and those who violate the oath would tear the whole structure down.Apparently, Senator Hutchinson thinks that tearing down the whole structure of the due process of law is just a a technicality.