Ruth Bader Ginsburg Implies Impeachment Trial Should Include Only Unbiased Senators
December 22, 2019 in News by RBN Staff
source: www.westernjournal.com
By C. Douglas Golden
What if you had an impeachment trial and nobody showed up to vote on it?
That’s at least what Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is suggesting. Not in so many words, mind you — but the subtext is certainly there.
So a bit of context before the remarks by the Notorious RBG: A few days ago, basically noting the politicized nature of the debate, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said that he couldn’t consider himself an “impartial juror.”
“I’m not an impartial juror,” McConnell said. “This is a political process. There is not anything judicial about it. Impeachment is a political decision.”
RBG, meanwhile, said that she thought that there should only be “impartial jurors” during an impeachment hearings.
“The House indicts, and the Senate tries. Should a trier be impartial? Of course, that’s the job of an impartial judge,” she said during an interview with the BBC before Trump’s impeachment.
