Saturday the 14th: not the good timeline

Yesterday's point of inflection has passed, and it's not good news.

We are not in the good timeline. 

• The Supreme Court decided that it would hear Trump's petitions rather than let the lower court rulings stand on their own.
• It will be 2020 March before the Supreme Court hears the cases, which is months of ongoing shenanigans still not being reviewed.
• When the House Of Representatives votes (next week *sigh*) for impeachment, then the cases go to the Senate immediately.  There is no more delaying for refinement of those articles of impeachment.  The current evidence is all we've got, which Republican obstruction has ensured is limited.
• The leader of the Senate hearings, Mitch McConnell, is already coordinating with the defendant to ensure that it is a sham trial.

We are not in the good timeline.

• The top White House lawyer (not Rudy Giuliani, despite his actions) has gone a full year without certifying his finances are free from conflicts of interest.
• This Republican president, while undergoing impeachment, went in front of reporters and declared with apparent impunity his continuing financial conflicts of interest.
• In a new judicial twist, there is now apparently the question of whether Congress even has standing to ask for records in the Mueller grand jury case that might be relevant to impeachment.  Co-equal branches of government?

We are not in the good timeline.