Vermont Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy “is expected to preside” over the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump, a Senate source told Fox News on Monday.
Vermont Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy will preside over the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump.
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Leahy, D-Vt., confirmed that he will preside over the trial in a statement Monday.
The president pro tempore has allegedly presided over Senate impeachment trials of non-presidents. “When presiding over an impeachment trial, the president pro tempore takes an additional special oath to do impartial justice according to the Constitution and the laws,” Leahy said. “It is an oath that I take extraordinarily seriously.”
Except when Presidents Johnson and Clinton went to trial, the Chief Justice presided.
Dems are burning down the Constitution. Shame on any Republican who is a party to this.
oh, and Leahy is a socialist.
A sham impeachment requires a sham judge.
The Chief Justice is required to be present for an authentic impeachment trial according to the constitution. This automatically makes it null & void.
This is UnConstitutional. No two ways about it .
Article 1, Section 3, clause 6 says that the Chief Justice must preside when impeaching the President.
And if he isnt President, they cant impeach him.
Next time burn it to the ground.
Zieg – “And if he isnt President, they cant impeach him.”
And if he isn’t President, he is a private citizen again, and the Senate cannot Try Him. Only the Judicial branch can conduct a trial.
Roberts can try and dodge this all he wants, but this will end up in the Supreme Court. The Court can only rule one way. In the end, the Democrats will be seen as a Lawless group of Communist trying to take over the US Government by fraud. This is already a blazing political fire and Democrats are dumping the equivalent of barrels of Bunker C fuel oil on it. A Communist style show trial isn’t even going to go over with Democrat Voters. There is no longer anything Democratic about the Democrat Party. Democrats may find themselves having to defend the legitimacy of the present US Government, because one of the Claims of the Impeachment Clause is that Trump lied about a corrupt election. Well, this will be aired in public as part of Trump’s Defense and could take weeks. Talk about a Constitutional Problem, a New President holding office when his election is undeniably shown to have been a fraud by a show trial in the Senate after he was removed from office due to election fraud. This issue will not go away until the Government can prove no election fraud, but the Government has already agreed there was fraud; just not enough to change the results. How does the Government know this if it has not fully investigated the fraud? Until there is a full investigation, the People will assume there was fraud. That’s how things work in a Government by the People!
Roberts knows this is not a constitutional process but rather a political one. A Soviet style show trial.