Trump Impeachment Hearings shouldn't be thought of in terms of Law & Order or other legal TV shows

Los Angeles Times

"The cold, sober facts of the case and hours of testimony just aren’t the stuff of the 'hearings' we’re used to watching," says Lorraine Ali. "We are, after all, an electorate whose understanding of government and the law has been shaped by The West Wing, Veep and Making a Murderer — or worse, Judge Judy...While political junkies, pundits and (former) presidential hopefuls can’t detach from this piece of history in the making, a large portion of the country appears to have opted out. The House Judiciary Committee’s questioning Wednesday of legal experts on articles of impeachment — and last month’s grilling of foreign service officers and aides by the House Intelligence Committee — did not evoke quite the same backstabbing drama of Succession or the brutality of a Game of Thrones tribunal."