It is like they are improvising with an old “West Wing” script.
Without Robert’s presence and blessing this “trial” is illegitimate, a farce, a waste of time except as a chance to find out who the enemy is.... as if we didn’t already riKNOW.
Basically because they say so.
Simple. It’s not mentioned nor will the media bring it up as a question.
No witnesses BEFORE he was impeached for the second time unlike the first farce.
They dispatched with the Constitution on Usurpation Day when BOTH parties swore in the ineligible Kenyan from Indonesia.
The argument is that the Chief Justice only presides over the impeachment of a President, not the impeachment of a former President.
If Roberts presided and Trump was acquitted, would that mean that Trump is still the President?
Big Media told the people the Chief Justice wasn’t necessary.
That part is actually in the constitution.
It’s really only about optics and the narrative - meat for their hypnotized sycophants (the useful idiots)...
Why would they need a Chief Justice to preside over a kangaroo court?
Looks like the Democrats just broke their agreement and now say they have to have more kangaroos.
Here’s the box the Democrats are in. If they fail to convict Trump, it will be a failure by Congress to remove Trump from office and he will still be President. That’s following their own logic.
So we will then have two presidents.
The Constitution of the United States of America has been **just a piece of paper** for modern politicians on both sides for quite some time.
Obama shredded it and now these loons have set the remains alight.....
After the mysterious package arrived. Dems called the bomb squad not knowing what it was. Bomb Squad gave the all clear when they learned it was the constitution
By refusing to participate, Chief Justice Roberts is sending us all a clear message: This whole thing is a sham.
But I can’t see how a Chief Justice’s presence must be mandatory. Yes, it’s specified in the Constitution. But suppose there is no Chief Justice, due to a death or a retirement. Or suppose the Chief Justice is a cranky old coot. By not participating, should he alone be able to stop an impeachment? It would seem to me that Congress should be able to move forward regardless.
They dance around it because repubes are complicit.
The Conservatives just play along because President Trump will be found not guilty.
That is extremely lazy and dangerous.
Rightly or wrongly, the Democrat Party just showed the people of the United States that the Supreme Court doesn’t matter.
They can have legal proceedings outside the authority of the Supreme Court.
They just showed us that the hard work put in to have Supreme Court Justices that follow the law instead of the wishes of the Democrat Party, was for nothing.
The law only counts when the Democrat Party wants it to count.
And that, folks, is how you get a dictatorship.
“They know not what they have done.”
It’s a SHOW. They know it’s all legally meaningless.
“Laws” are bow by executive fiat, which gives congress nothing else to do but waste time on shows like this.
..and all this is on OUR dime.
Easy, they ignore it.
Republicans were too stupid and NeverTrumper to just say, “That’s not Constitutional” and refuse to participate, like Roberts refused.
Roberts have them the perfect out, what idiots.