Exactly so.

Jonathan Rausch of the National Journal gets it exactly right: ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich may well have richly deserved to be impeached, tried, and removed from office. But that doesn't mean that too many corners weren't cut in the process- and that the result- even if legitimate and even desirable in itself- doesn't look so much like a railroading that, for what it does for the expectation of due process, it might as well have been one.

HT: Real Clear Politics