The Supreme Court has to pretend Trump is a normal president to lay down a marker for the future—even as the argument that this president can't be bothered with a burdensome legal process is something of a tough pill to swallow
the Senate minority leader, asked Chief Justicesitting as presiding officer, if he was aware of precedents, dating back to the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson in 1868, that would allow him to cast a tie-breaking vote during the deliberations, should senators be hopelessly divided on key remaining issues. Roberts didn’t flinch.
And with that, Roberts, true to form, all but paved the way for a Senate acquittal, the third in history, on charges that a sitting president had abused the powers of his office. Preordained as it was, that result had little to do with the chief justice, who was little more than the potted plant that nearly everyone expected him to be.
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