That’s not how it works. Those of us who were here during the Clinton Senate trial debacle can tell you that the Senate gets to decide how the trial will be run, vote on any and all witnesses and whether they will be allowed, and vote on any evidentiary rulings. The Chief Justice is there, and can perhaps be more involved than CJ Rehnquist was, but they have no power except unless asked for guidance. Rehnquist was basically a potted plant, and wore a robe that came from a Broadway play.
The Senate is Judge and Jury.
Thanks, Defiant!
Rehnquist agreed with you.
“On several occasions when asked what I did at the trial,” Rehnquist wrote to a man in Carson City, Nevada, “I took a leaf out of [the Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera] Iolanthe and replied, ‘I did nothing in particular, and did it very well