Witnesses could be summoned. Documents could be demanded. Executive privilege could be claimed. Democrats may ask Chief Justice John Roberts for help.
WASHINGTON – Republicans hoping to end the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump and Democrats seeking to extend it with witnesses and documents may be looking to one man Friday: Chief Justice John Roberts.
Bowman says Roberts' intervention would be an"entirely quixotic exercise," contending that even if former White House national security adviser John Bolton testified on Trump's actions regarding Ukraine,"It won't change a single vote.
But Friday looms as a wild card: In theory, at least, subpoenas could fly. Witnesses could be summoned. Documents could be demanded. Executive privilege could be claimed. And with Republicans holding a 53-47 Senate majority, Democrats may be looking to Roberts for help. "With no disrespect at all to the chief justice, that's not the constitutional design," Sekulow told the Senate."The chief justice is here as the presiding officer of this proceeding."
"I don’t think there’s much he can do," says Michael Gerhardt, an impeachment expert and professor at the University of North Carolina School of Law."I think that he is kind of captive to the rules.” Politically, however, there is good reason for Roberts to steer clear. He eschews judicial involvement in politics, going so far as to write the judiciary out of deciding whether one-sided election maps drawn along partisan lines by state legislatures may be unconstitutional.
Thus it was that Roberts was forced to read a question about himself Thursday, written by Sen.
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