01-08-2021, 09:04 PM
I'm sure there is a partisan advantage angle (force a vote that many Republicans don't want to make) as part of her motivation, but I think she is genuinely - and rightly so to my way of thinking - worried that Trump will do something extremely dangerous for the country before he leaves office. She's making him face the possibility of being impeached, convicted and removed quickly if he were to go so far off the rails that enough Republican Senators abandon him. It would probably have to be pretty extreme and still leaves Trump able to do a lot of shenanigans that Republicans can ignore, but I think it's better to have that hanging over his head as a last check because the history of his behavior indicates that he is too capable of doing something really bad.