Speaker Pelosi said Senate Majority Leader McConnell humiliated Chief Justice Roberts during President Trump’s impeachment trial by voting against any additional witness testimony.
with firsthand knowledge of Trump's conduct toward Ukraine, including his former national security adviser John Bolton and acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney.
There was some speculation early Friday morning about whether Roberts would break a deadlock in favor of the Democrats should the Senate reach aWhen Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., asked Roberts if he would intervene in the case of a tie, the chief justice said it would be"inappropriate."
"If the members of this body, elected by the people and accountable to them, divide equally on a motion, the normal rule is that the motion fails. I think it would be inappropriate for me, an unelected official from a different branch of government, to assert the power to change that result so that the motion would succeed," Roberts said.
Pelosi was not the only person to suggest Roberts had been put in an unfair position. In a statement announcing her decision Friday, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, a Republican swing vote, said she did not want to"drag the Supreme Court into the fray.""It has also become clear some of my colleagues intend to further politicize this process, and drag the Supreme Court into the fray, while attacking the Chief Justice," Murkowski wrote.
Final arguments in the impeachment trial are scheduled to begin next week, with Trump expected to be acquitted on both articles of impeachment Wednesday.
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