As the presiding officer in President Trump’s impeachment trial, Chief Justice John Roberts finds himself in a role very different from the one he normally occupies
As the presiding officer in President Trump’s impeachment trial, the Chief Justice of the United States finds himself in a role very different from the one he normally occupies. In their day jobs, Supreme Court justices decide well-formed legal questions with the benefit of extensive briefing, discussion with peers, and a lot of time to think.
giving a few wins to the Democrats and a few to the Republicans—to reinforce the idea that justices aren't tangled up in party politics. dislike: The impeachment rules allow a majority of Senators to override the presiding officer, so the Republican majority, if it votes as a bloc, could overrule Roberts on pretty much any point. And if Roberts issues orders and gets overridden, the Chief Justice might seem weak.
Savvy legal thinkers have criticized this image ever since as naïve. Different justices have different ideologies that pull them in different directions in ways that baseball umpires do not, and everybody knows it. Indeed, Roberts’s own remarks to the Senate that day underscored how far justices are from umpires. As part of his argument that justices shouldn’t be understood as playing for anyone’s team, he noted that “Nobody ever went to a ball game to see the umpire.
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