An epigram likely composed by the lawyer-poet John Godfrey Saxe says laws, like sausages, “cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made.” That observation certainly applies to the motives and methods that led to what author Fred Lucas concludes was “the worst impeachment in American history.” In this case, however, the rhetorical saw should be revised to cover the production of really rotten sausages.
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