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Roberts sworn in to preside over Trump impeachment trial

swing_voter said:
Is Justice Roberts wearing his impeachment robes?

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Note the stripes on the upper arms. Justice Scalia had these robes specially made for Clinton's impeachment.
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Are you joking or something? Based on memory, you are wrong about the stripes and his name isn't Scalia...?
 
Lucky Roberts...he gets to be in the middle of a politically motivated ****storm.

I'd say "No thanks, give the job to someone else."
 
swing_voter said:
Is Justice Roberts wearing his impeachment robes?

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Note the stripes on the upper arms. Justice Scalia had these robes specially made for Clinton's impeachment.
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An “ode to the zebra man”. I hope his meds are in balance so he doesn’t get too creative like with Obamacare.
 
Just saw a bit about him on PBS, video in link.


How John Roberts will approach his role in Trump’s impeachment trial | PBS NewsHour
 
Roadvirus said:
Lucky Roberts...he gets to be in the middle of a politically motivated ****storm.

I'd say "No thanks, give the job to someone else."
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roberts will follow Rehnquist. who did nothing.
he is going to stay out of it.
 
ludin said:
roberts will follow Rehnquist. who did nothing.
he is going to stay out of it.
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People are both fantastically overestimating and underestimating the significance of his involvement. Your post is an example of the latter.

Interestingly enough, this miscalculation of his powers crosses the political aisle.
 
I would like to believe the chief justice will be wearing his I'm here to follow the law hat. Nothing more, nothing less.
 
Michael Cole said:
Agreed, unless he needs to break a tie
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there will not be a tie. this is going to go close to full party line vote with a few
democrats voting to clear trump.
 
Cardinal said:
People are both fantastically overestimating and underestimating the significance of his involvement. Your post is an example of the latter.

Interestingly enough, this miscalculation of his powers crosses the political aisle.
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Not at all.

Senate Impeachment Trial: Chief Justice John Roberts' Role Will Be Limited : NPR

He likely will aspire to Rehnquist's puckish evaluation of his own role in the 1999 Senate trial. Borrowing a line from Gilbert and Sullivan's play Iolanthe, Rehnquist opined, "I did nothing in particular and did it very well."

he maybe asked to rule given the leftist to pout but anything he rules on can be overturned by a majority vote in the senate.
 
Kreton said:
What I found interesting is that the entire senate swore to be impartial.

After so many declared they would not be publicly.

Oaths mean nothing.
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What I find interesting is that the House didn't have to swear to anything when they impeached Trump. They were all free to be as dishonest as they wanted to impeach and now they expect honesty in the Senate. There's something seriously wrong with that process.
 

The House members swore an oath when they were sworn in as members. Senators are jurists and are sworn in.
 

Right but you are fine with Republicans in the senate opening vowing to break their oath to the trial and to the country. To ignore any and all evidence and regardless of what happened loyalty to party. Your hypocrisy and loyalty to the man you worship is not impressive. You don't find it interesting you are just justifying your hyper partisan extreme alt right wing narrative.
 

I don't care because an impeachment trial is forced on us that shouldn't be there in the first place due to the dishonesty of Democrats.
 
Roadvirus said:
Lucky Roberts...he gets to be in the middle of a politically motivated ****storm.

I'd say "No thanks, give the job to someone else."
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That might depend upon whether he has strong ideology on the impeachment, and whether he wants his ideology to count?
 
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