Rules for the Senate’s Impeachment role

[ColonelAngus]

U.S. Senate: Impeachment

I have read a lot of BS on this site about how the Senate handles impeachment.

Here is the specific text from SENATE.GOV:

A committee of representatives, called “managers,” acts as prosecutors before the Senate. The Senate sits as a High Court of Impeachment in which senators consider evidence, hear witnesses, and vote to acquit or convict the impeached official. In the case of presidential impeachment trials, the chief justice of the United States presides. The Constitution requires a two-thirds vote of the Senate to convict, and the penalty for an impeached official upon conviction is removal from office. In some cases, the Senate has also disqualified such officials from holding public offices in the future. There is no appeal. Since 1789, about half of Senate impeachment trials have resulted in conviction and removal from office.

In 1993, in the case Nixon v. United States, the Supreme Court upheld the Senate’s right to determine its own procedures, including the use of a trial committee.
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Just an informative post so we know what will happen should the house votes to impeach.

 

[ColonelAngus]

Oh great, Roberts will oversee it. Wonderful.

 

[kyzr]

The key Trial points that need to be confirmed are:
1. No hearsay evidence can be allowed, i.e. no "exceptions" are warranted (so says Judge Janine)
2. The defense can call any witnesses they want, especially to prove the deep state coup attempts, and the interference of Ukraine in 2016
3. Who can opine if the "articles" reach the Constitutional threshold for impeachment? Professors Turley and Dershowitz already said they don't
4. Can the USSC opine on the "articles" like Turley and Dershowitz? (RBG needs to recuse because of her prior comments)
5. Can the Barr, Huber, Durham, and Horowitz investigations and indictments be impacted by the trial?