Like any trial, let the trial judge be the gatekeeper.
You desperately only want your witnesses but not hunter and Joe and Adam and WB. If witnesses come, it will not be just Dem choices as in the House. Frankly, i'd cut your as out altoghether, but I am stronger than some.
The GOP would be free to proffer any witness they believe relevant to Roberts. Do you deem Roberts to be unfair and bias??
I would be all for Roberts ruling on the ADMISSIBILITY of the testimony.
If Congress allows another body of the government to make its decisions for them their power and place in governing has been usurped.
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“The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments.’
It is just as easy to suggest that the presiding judge can make such judgments.
Again, the Constitution is silent on the details.
So it's a waste of time even thinking about it. There is nobody who would have standing in any suit that could possibly be brought.
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But, it is lunacy to think that they would ever cede that much power to another branch. Just bullshit politicking by your boy, that's all it is. Complete waste of time.
It is an impeachment trial.
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I had been worried that the last few years of Schiff's circus were a harbinger of the future.
Most Americans would deem the Chief Justice to be a fair referee, and a much cleaner option for history and fairness.
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