Turley argued that democrats should have pursued the courts but he has also said contrary to Trump’s latest rant to the contrary, Trump was really impeached by the House. And going through the courts will take years. He’ll lose but it will buy him lots of time. Trump in your mind is fighting to block information that exonerates him. And it’s not even a principled legal stance that you would extend to a democrat.
The consensus is the Democrats have already lost, and it's just a matter of Pelosi admitting the battle is lost, and letting the Senate make its ruling ending impeachment.
As for what Turley said, he was answering what other legal scholars have said, that if Pelosi doesn't pass on the House impeachment charges to the Senate, then impeachment didn't really happen. Turley said that impeachment has occurred regardless. And in contrast to Turley's opinion, Trump-hating Noah Feldman, Harvard Law School professor who sat right next to Turley in the House impeachment hearings on December 4th, commented publicly he was in a panic that the impeachment is *NOT* official until Pelosi submits it to the Senate. So there is some dispute whether the current state of the process is officially impeachment or not.
Here is what Turley said in House impeachment hearings on December 4th:
He clearly says that Democrats are the ones abusing their power, by pursuing a partisan impeachment, not even trying to get a bipartisan consensus, and rushing to judgement.
