Cooper & Kirk partner Charles Cooper, long a go-to litigator to advance key conservative issues, won’t reveal publicly whether he thinks former President Donald Trump should be convicted on the charge of inciting a deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol.

But Cooper has a question Republican senators should ask themselves before they cast their votes on the fate of Trump, whose supporters led a violent insurrection Jan. 6 as members of Congress were counting electoral votes marking Joe Biden’s presidential win.