Can Roberts declare a mistrial and force a do-over?

[DetlefK]

Let's ignore all that hubub about witnesses for a minute.



The US Senate has set rules by which this trial is to be conducted.

1. One of those rules is that the Senators are supposed to stay in their seats. The GOP violated this rule multiple times and left for lengthy times. One Republican even left in the middle of the trial to give an interview on Fox News.

2. The Senators were supposed to hand questions to Roberts, so he could read them to the impeachment managers and to the defense-lawyers. Instead, the defense-lawyers were caught on camera writing questions for the GOP Senators.

3. The defense-lawyers made factually wrong statements. And AFAIK lawyers are under obligation to tell the truth in court, even though they are not under oath. AFAIK a lawyer lying in court is subject to disciplinary actions of the court-system (fines, imprisonment, temporary or permanent loss of licence). E.g. just a few days ago there was a lawyer who lied during discovery to hide evidence and he was sentenced to a $10,000 fine. A few months ago another lawyer lied in a court-document and only came clean after the judge threatened him with jail.



With all the DEFINITELY NOT REGULAR shit going on during the trial, the trial is definitely already tainted, witnesses or not.

[LuvLoogie]

1. Robert's can and should...

go fuck himself.

[dem4decades]

7. And to think he's the best of those 5 shitheads.

[redstateblues]

2. Republican Roberts? Really?

[Bev54]

9. Exactly

Let's not pretend he has any balls.

[elleng]

3. No

[dweller]

4. one defense lawyer

is a material witness,
he was present in a meeting when fatnixon directed his impeachable offense,
then represented him to say he was not guilty of the offense

wtf ?

✌🏼

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. No, there's nothing like that in the Senate's rules.

The CJ is only the presiding officer under the rules of the Senate. He doesn't have the same powers as a trial judge.

[magicarpet]

6. Cipollone was a fact witness of this illegal Ukraine extortion scheme.

(See Parnas' lawyer letter) Cipollone should never have been at the White House defense table. Cipollone helped concoct this Ukraine extortion plot he was involved in this illegal act.

NO WONDER THEY WANTED NO MORE ADDITIONAL WITNESSES !

[WyattKansas]

8. For Christ's sake, the Democratic Party should be crawling up Cipollone's ass with a microscope.

Someone tell me that the Democrats don't have to just take it.

[tritsofme]

10. No. It's that simple.

[Bradical79]

11. Do you have a link to #2? I missed it -nt

[Hassler]

12. Roberts won't save us. He's part of the problem. He's a political hack in robes. Nothing more.