Air, i agree with you. There is no comparison. You are trying to compare apples and oranges. The involved House Committees (consisting of both Republicans and Democrats) are investigating and gathering facts. What they are doing is not a trial. The House will not make a finding of guilt or innocence. If articles of impeachment are passed in the House, that essentially means they believe there is sufficient evidence to send it on to the Senate, where there will then be a trial, presided over by the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, at which both sides will get their day in court. That’s the way the U.S. Constitution says it is to be done. The witnesses who have testified to the House Committees will testify live before the Senate and be subject to cross-examination.
I wonder, if the U.S. Supreme Court upholds today’s ruling, will Trump’s Department of Justice (i.e., Barr) comply with the court order to release the grand jury testimony?