Chief Justice Roberts Admonishes Impeachment Managers, Trump Lawyers ‘in Equal Terms’
As senators heard hours of debate over amendments to a proposed rules package that would govern the Senate’s impeachment trial of President Donald Trump , the rhetoric got a little heated. Chief Justice John Roberts …
As senators heard hours of debate over amendments to a proposed rules package that would govern the Senate’s Impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, the rhetoric got a little heated.
Chief Justice John Roberts, who is presiding over the trial, weighed in to chastise both sides for using rhetoric not fitting while addressing “the world’s great deliberative body.”
“I think It is appropriate at this point for me to admonish both the House managers and president’s counsel in equal terms to remember that they are addressing the world’s greatest deliberative body.”
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“One reason it has earned that title is because its members avoid speaking in a manner and using language that is not conducive to civil discourse,” he added.
Roberts noted that in a 1905 Impeachment trial of a federal judge, the presiding officer agreed with a senator that the word “pettifogging … ought not to have been used.”
“I don’t think we need to aspire to that high standard,” Roberts said, adding, “But I do think those addressing the Senate should remember where they are.”