Trump's threat to get the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene to stop the impeachment 'witch hunt' is just an empty threat
Trump keeps threatening to get SCOTUS to smite his congressional tormenters. Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images It’s not breaking news that our president says nonsensical or counterfactual things all the time. But one particular claim of his — that his pending impeachment is “unconstitutional” — is becoming relevant since it will soon be an accomplished fact. And so the New York Times’ Adam Liptak assesses Trump’s threat to get the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene to stop the “witch hunt.
The two arguments, both specious, you have heard most often about the “unconstitutional” impeachment process against Trump is that Democrats failed to authorize it by a full House vote , and that they are not identifying criminal acts by the president to reach the threshold of “high crimes and misdemeanors.
But even if that argument had any merit, the courts are not going to intervene in an ongoing impeachment process to vindicate it, as SCOTUS made clear in the aforementioned 1993 case, notes Liptak: There are no plans in the works to violate any of those conditions, which are in any event in the hands of Trump’s ally Mitch McConnell. Certainly the only threat to the chief justice’s role in an impeachment trial is from certain right-wing Trump allies, not from Democrats, as the Washington Times reports:
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