This could be a BIG issue. If our turncoat RINOs vote for witnesses, I think they're gonna try to do it all in the senate with the senators brushing aside executive immunity and privilege by a 51 vote majority. And this, of course, would give the legislative branch an unconstitutional level of power over the executive. Schumer's now pushing the notion that the Chief Justice can make this ruling on his own. No thanks. Pray that the president's legal team CAN get this to the full SCOTUS, otherwise we are at an extreme constitutional crisis.
Yeah, but that is nutty. As presiding over this trial, he is not part of the Article III courts. He is simply keeping order in a senate trial. He is effectively a member of the senate.
Schumer says all sorts of nutty things.
I would expect team trump to file a lawsuit in the federtal district court of DC, and appeal from there. SCOTUS does not have original jurisdiction over this case, see constitution (and what was the fatyal defec in marbury v. Madison, SCOTUS original jurisdiction)
Not that I have any affinity for CJ Roberts, but he is not brave enough to take on what Schumer suggests, and he has an easy out, i.e., the identity I noted above. In this trial, CJ Roberts is part of the senate conducting impeachment, he is not part of an Article III court.