Michael McConnell has suggested that the House overreacted to the criticism of the first impeachment—for Trump’s pressure on the Ukraine government to fabricate an investigation of his chief political opponent—by framing the second on “incitement” in narrowly “legalistic” terms. As a result, it wound up “unnecessarily shoulder[ing] the burden of proving the elements” of the crime of incitement when there is no question that Trump’s actions leading up to and including Jan. 6 constituted a fully impeachable dereliction of constitutional duties.