President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he would turn to the Supreme Court if the House of Representatives moves to impeach him, though it is unclear what role the nation’s highest court could play if the president were to seek its help in such a situation.
Trump claimed in a tweet posted Wednesday morning that special counsel Robert Mueller’s report was written by a team biased against him with “unlimited money” for an investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Still, he said, the report “didn’t lay a glove on me.”
“I DID NOTHING WRONG,” Trump said. “If the partisan Dems ever tried to Impeach, I would first head to the U.S. Supreme Court.”
Although Trump claimed he would seek the Supreme Court’s help if the House were to impeach him, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously in 1993 that authority for impeachment trials resides in Congress and ”nowhere else.”
A number of congressional Democrats have called for the initiation of impeachment proceedings against the president after a redacted version of Mueller’s report was released to the public Thursday. The special counsel’s probe found proof of Russian meddling in the 2016 election but did not establish evidence of a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.
Mueller also did not take a stance on whether the president obstructed justice, but detailed 10 episodes in which Trump tried to interfere with the Russia investigation. He wrote that Congress has the authority to conduct its own probes into the president’s actions, a passage fueling much of lawmakers’ conversation about impeachment.
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Trump said he would turn to the Supreme Court if the House moves to impeach him, though it is unclear what role the nation’s highest court could play if the president were to seek its help in such a situation https://t.co/YrUKo89e62
— POLITICO (@politico) April 24, 2019
2. Madison actually proposed placing it in the Supreme Court, or "or rather a tribunal of which that should form a part.” But others objected. Gouverneur Morris warned the justices were "too few in number and might be warped or corrupted."
— Yoni Appelbaum (@YAppelbaum) April 24, 2019
4. In Federalist 65, Hamilton echoed these arguments, and added more. The Court might lack “the credit and authority” to rule against an impeachment brought by the elected representatives of the people in the House, or "so eminent a portion of fortitude” as to convict.
— Yoni Appelbaum (@YAppelbaum) April 24, 2019
6. But there’s one more, which ties to "the nature of the proceeding,” and so tells us something essential about how the framers thought about impeachment.
— Yoni Appelbaum (@YAppelbaum) April 24, 2019
8. Put simply, impeachment is not just a legal proceeding—it places "awful discretion” in the hands of Congress. That’s because Congress *is supposed to* exercise its judgment, looking at "the abuse or violation of some public trust."
— Yoni Appelbaum (@YAppelbaum) April 24, 2019
This is what the president fails to grasp when he says he’ll turn to the Supreme Court to establish that there are "no 'High Crimes and Misdemeanors,' there are no Crimes by me at all.” If it were simply a matter of crimes, we might have vested the power in the judiciary.
— Yoni Appelbaum (@YAppelbaum) April 24, 2019
12. I wrote about impeachment—and why many Americans, including the president, have failed to grasp its actual role—here: https://t.co/s9Y6UMQVCn
— Yoni Appelbaum (@YAppelbaum) April 24, 2019
He claims he is innocent of obstruction of justice and yet here he is, once again, obstructing justice. This guy is a really slow learner. Amazing he is so ignorant of the Constitution and how this country works. Did he think he was elected to rule like a king? That there were no limits on a POTUS? I really think he believes that. He has no idea about so many things. Very uneducated and it shows. I can’t think of anyone less qualified to hold the job than Donald Trump. Where does he get the idea that he can go to the SC about this? Don’t his lawyers set him straight?
Granny, I don’t believe Trump listens to anyone except maybe his kids and Kushner.
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