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Sohn: Watch the trial or not, get ready this week for impeachment fallout

In this image from video, President Pro Tempore of the Senate Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa., swears in Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts as the presiding officer for the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump in the Senate at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020. (Senate Television via AP)
In this image from video, President Pro Tempore of the Senate Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa., swears in Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts as the presiding officer for the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump in the Senate at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020. (Senate Television via AP) In this image from video, President Pro Tempore of the Senate Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa., swears in Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts as the presiding officer for the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump in the Senate at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020. (Senate Television via AP)

Gearing up …

There’s been a lot of talk among pundits about “vulnerable” Republican Congress and Senate members in the election year of Trump’s impeachment.

But how would you like to be Democratic Sen. Doug Jones just across our state line in Roll Tide-red Alabama?

In early fall, even before the House formally announced an impeachment inquiry, Jones told his staff to “gear up.”

The former prosecutor thought the evidence was compelling enough for him to want to become an expert on impeachment – legally and historically. He asked his staff to start meeting on the topic, and to collect all the research they could find for him to read, according to a story in the Washington Post last week.