Posted on 12/19/2019 10:49:59 AM PST by powermill
Ruth Bader Ginsburg spoke with the BBC about the upcoming impeachment trial in the US Senate.
During her questioning Justice Ginsburg suggested that US Senators could be disqualified from the proceedings if they are not impartial.
Justice Ginsburg: “The House indicts, and the Senate tries. Should a trier be impartial? Of course, that’s the job of an impartial judge.”
Allahpundit wrote at HotAir about Ginsburg’s careless comments.
If Schumer or Pelosi (or whoever might have standing) sues McConnell and Graham, arguing that they’ve disqualified themselves from the trial, presumably SCOTUS could choose to hear that appeal.
Could Ginsburg take part in that case now, having already stated her opinion that senators have a duty to be impartial as the triers of fact in impeachment?
“I would not be surprised if some members of the Senate quoted RBG’s remarks to criticize their colleagues neutrality,” Blackman noted at one point in today’s post.
Indeed. Ginsburg is now a player in this dispute, inadvertently or not, not just a potential adjudicator. Way to go.
What’s her definition of impartial?
won’t be long now.......it has finally spread to her brain
Utterly meaningless noise.
Supreme Court has all ready established the principal that impeachment is a political issue for the Legislature. Ruthy G, by herself, cannot simply change the rules now. Her bloviating is of no more legal significance they anything else a private citizen says.
Ginsburg can no longer think straight, she needs to resign.
Somebody show her some garlic!
Drive a stake through her heart while she’s sleeping in her coffin!
She has to be a Vampire. It’s the only way!
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Nah, that was just the formaldehyde talking.
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Precisely. Not one person in the Senate is impartial. Not one.
And the dementia sets in.
Doesn’t Ginsberg have a appointment with a stone cutter?
Impartial means one of two things. First, if you want to behead Donald Trump, you are impartial. Second, if you want to pour molten lead down Donald Trump’s throat, you are impartial. All others should recuse themselves.
what a jerk!
who’s to disqualify them, Ruthie?
you?
ha ha ha!
go home and read your Constitution for a change!
and retire already, you’re making such an ass of yourself!!
Is she still alive? Did they interview her in person?
Ruthie. Take your meds and get back in bed. Your scumbag ‘RAT pals in the House weren’t even partially, impartial. Lighten up, you screwball.
“The House indicts, and the Senate tries. Should a trier be impartial? Of course, that’s the job of an impartial judge.”
Also, even if these are jurors, they are the only pool of jurors, and ALL must serve. There is simply no Constitutional provision for removing any one or more Senators from an impeachment trial for ANY reason. AGAIN, she is factually incorrect.
Maybe RBG should be impeached for being unable to carry out her duties due to dementia? I’d love it if Graham or McConnell would float that (or Trump).
RBG needs to go and read the Constitution....maybe for the first time.
Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker, senators, are running for president against Trump.
So is the old biddy wanting these two removed from a vote?
I’m ok with that.
anyone voting for witnesses in the senate trial..
Nor are any Supreme Court justices.
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