Chief Justice John Roberts does NOT
want to preside over Donald Trump's
second impeachment trial—meaning Senate
will have to decide if Kamala Harris
will take his place
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Geoff Earle
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
1/19/2021 3:19:23 PM
Chief Justice John Roberts is eager to avoid presiding over Donald Trump's second impeachment trial–after he became a lightning rod during the first one. Just as the Senate is seeking to ascertain how it might proceed with an impeachment trial without blowing up the start of Joe Biden's term, the Supreme Court could face its own business being rearranged. The Constitution states that 'When the President of the United States is tried the Chief Justice shall preside.' But with the Senate having been in recess since the House voted to impeach, the trial will occur when Trump is no longer in office
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Nimby 1/19/2021 3:25:09 PM (No. 666513)
They are appointed for life and pick and choose their cases!!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
lakerman1 1/19/2021 3:25:26 PM (No. 666515)
I suppose the U.S. Supreme Court could issue a 'null pros' decision, saying the trial to remove a president from office is meaningless, given the fact that he is out of office.
And the clear language of the Constitution would mean the trial cannot take place if the Chief Judas refuses to show up.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
thekidsmom66 1/19/2021 3:27:50 PM (No. 666521)
An impeachment is a political procedure, but a legal one. Why in the WORLD would John Roberts be presiding over it?! These people have lost their minds!!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
thekidsmom66 1/19/2021 3:28:53 PM (No. 666523)
Correcting myself, #3, it is NOT a legal procedure
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
JackBurton 1/19/2021 3:30:48 PM (No. 666526)
Rats.
Sinking ship.
Figgers.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
marbles 1/19/2021 3:31:05 PM (No. 666527)
You cannot impeach someone that's out of office.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Laotzu 1/19/2021 3:33:18 PM (No. 666531)
Wow, that is news. There's a Swamp Critter in DC that has other things he'd rather do than talk about Donald Trump.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
john56 1/19/2021 3:34:56 PM (No. 666534)
I believe that the Constitution provides that the Chief Justice would sit as the Presiding officer only in the case of the impeachment of a President while in office. After noon tomorrow, Donald Trump is a private citizen, therefore Roberts is off the hook. Horizontal Harris or Roger Rabbitt, I don't care who presides over the kangaroo court. Republicans should boycott the show trial and show up only to vote NO at the end.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Avikingman 1/19/2021 3:37:43 PM (No. 666537)
The Supine Court Chief Justice gets a Mulligan?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
NYbob 1/19/2021 3:47:35 PM (No. 666549)
Rats correctly think they can do anything they want to. We are no longer a Republic. Our freedoms and protections are gone. Congress abandoned it's job years ago when it stopped taking any responsibility for budgets. It is all pandering and a blank check book, until that doesn't work anymore and then they will run away to their heavily guarded compounds and private islands.
The sea of idiots who are led like very small children by the lies the media feeds them, greased the skids and all those who should have done something, didn't. All of it falls into a broken pile of disappointment, forever. At least for most of us. We committed suicide in multiple ways over the decades since WWII and the crew in power now are the perfect examples of how low we have fallen. Now the great education of pain and suffering begins. Thanks, morons and cowards.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Periwinkel 1/19/2021 3:50:37 PM (No. 666553)
#3 John Roberts presided over the first impeachment of Donald Trump. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court William Rehnquist presided over the impeachment of Bill Clinton in 1998??
It's what they are supposed to do. Chief Justice Roberts of the goofy grin should just put all his personal prejudices aside and do his job...which is dismiss this impeachment.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
bobmadison 1/19/2021 3:52:25 PM (No. 666556)
Let's see now: Since the Honorable Supreme Court Justice John Roberts did not want to look at voter fraud because the court would be responsible for riots, does that mean HE is responsible for the deaths of the five people in D.C. Jan. 6th? Hmmmm.....
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 1/19/2021 3:52:27 PM (No. 666557)
The Lynch mob will never get a trial in the Senate, so this is all showboating and around the clock spin for the enemedia. You can't impeach him to remove him from office after Joe has been sworn in. So delay the inauguration and hold a "trial". Let me know if that works for you.
10 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 1/19/2021 4:00:03 PM (No. 666562)
Go ahead Democrats, start off China Joe's administration with a Soviet style show trial. And Kamala can channel her inner Roland Frieslar as Donald Trumps trial judge. We will not forget. Come 2022 the Uniparty members (Republicans and Democrats) will be voted into the dustbin of history, with the Party of Trump retaking the House and the Senate. And the Democrats because they set another Harry Reid precedent, will experience their own Impeachment trials.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
DVC 1/19/2021 4:03:03 PM (No. 666564)
Any phony baloney "trail" after the President is not in office has absolutely NO force in law. Total BS, fake, fraudulent, unconstitutional.
They are TERRIFIED of Trump, DESPERATE stop him from running again, even if they have to violate the Constitution AGAIN.
Total BS. The Senate phones need to be ringing off the hook NOW to tell them to just stop this insanity.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 1/19/2021 4:07:16 PM (No. 666571)
This just underscores that the impeachment was a farce. There was no possible way a full trial in the Senate could be accomplished before Jan. 20.
9 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
columba 1/19/2021 4:11:45 PM (No. 666575)
Hate Does Not End with an Election, with a Trial, with Denigration of Character. Hate Is Eternal as Long and One Desires to Hate. And There Is a Place for Him to Hate All Day and Night in the End.
6 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
bighambone 1/19/2021 4:24:31 PM (No. 666592)
There could not be a bigger conflict of interest and fiasco then for Harris to preside at a Trump impeachment trial in the US Senate, as chances are she might well run against Trump in the 2024 general election. This tells you that Roberts knows that any such trial in the Senate after Trump leaves office would be an unconstitutional bill of attainder targeting former President and just plain citizen Trump, and that Roberts does not want history to connect his name to any such partisan political act. In that respect the Senate Democrats could always appoint McConnell as a UniParty bipartisan king pin to preside and do the Democrats dirty work targeting Trump.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
seamusm 1/19/2021 4:36:25 PM (No. 666604)
What precisely does 'doesn't want to' mean? Its called - do your damn job, Mr. Roberts!
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
mathman 1/19/2021 4:42:08 PM (No. 666610)
It does not matter what Roberts wants.
All that matters is what Zhou Bai-Den wants.
Remember: the mob determines policy.
And if the mob wants Senate conviction, that is what the mob will get.
Otherwise they will burn down the Capitol.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Fosterdad 1/19/2021 4:58:07 PM (No. 666634)
There is a simple solution to his dilemma. He should preside over the first day of the trial. Before any arguments are made, he should declare that since Trump is no longer President, the issue of impeachment is moot and that the trial is adjourned. Problem solved.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
happywarrior 1/19/2021 5:02:00 PM (No. 666644)
What a bunch of jackals. I can't wait for President Trump to start his campaign for 2024. I wonder if he'll wait a few weeks or start right away.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
skacmar 1/19/2021 5:04:54 PM (No. 666647)
Justice John Roberts does not want to hurt his standing with the cocktail party crowd in DC. He is a coward! Of course, he could just rule that the entire impeachment charade is null and void as President Trump is now Former President Trump and a trial would be just beating a dead horse and be done to show how hateful and spiteful the Democrats and never Trumpers are.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 1/19/2021 5:22:00 PM (No. 666664)
Thank you #6. There will be no impeachment. They are just saying that so that Trump would go away and never be heard from again. It ain't happening.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
red1066 1/19/2021 5:23:28 PM (No. 666665)
At least he decided to do one thing that's good.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Newtsche 1/19/2021 6:20:53 PM (No. 666762)
Right you are, 25, serve himself.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Historybuff 1/19/2021 6:29:43 PM (No. 666785)
I think his intellect was greatly exaggerated.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
BarryNo 1/19/2021 6:33:02 PM (No. 666789)
And I say again, for the next four years, if any office during an election is held by a swamp critter or unused Democrat - write in DONALD TRUMP.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 1/19/2021 6:44:20 PM (No. 666814)
John Roberts is a cowardly POS. Here is what the United States Constitution says, “ When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside:.” It doesn’t say may preside, could preside, will preside if he decides to, or any other made up line of BS that will be created.
And because there will be dictionary definition games, here is Merriam-Webster’s definition that explains the legal aspect:
3a —used to express a command or exhortation
you shall go
b —used in laws, regulations, or directives to express what is mandatory
it shall be unlawful to carry firearms
So, he can cry all he wants. He can say he doesn’t want to. But by-god, it is his constitutional duty to do so. He should be impeached if he refuses.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 1/19/2021 6:50:39 PM (No. 666826)
So, CJ Roberts, you are going to chicken out again just like you did when Texas brought its election fraud case to you? Guess what this makes you, sir? Still need to keep your trips to Epstein's orgy island out of sight, eh?
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
milwaukeeroad 1/19/2021 7:38:41 PM (No. 666884)
So Johnny gets to flip a coin? Surely everyone is kidding me.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
ThreeBadCats3 1/19/2021 8:16:01 PM (No. 666936)
Roberts is less than gas passed in the wind of history.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
MDConservative 1/19/2021 10:37:33 PM (No. 667082)
Chief justice Earl Warren Roberts could shut this Unconstitutional proceeding down by refusing to preside at an Unconstitutional proceeding. It's that simple. Mitch should refuse to negotiate rules on the same basis. Republicans should refuse to participate on that basis. PDT should reject any summons to trial on that basis. Any Republican who plays along with Schumer, et al, should be invited to cross the aisle and not look back. (Yeah, I'm looking at you Shemeless Mitt Romney...and a few others.)
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