[Cboldt]

-- Schumer's now pushing the notion that the Chief Justice can make this ruling on his own. --

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.

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Any ruling by the chair can be overturned by a majority vote.