This despite the court making it clear that it has no role in impeachment proceedings.
President Donald Trump threatened Wednesday to fight a possible impeachment effort by Congressional Democrats in the US Supreme Court.
But Trump’s tweet suggested the White House is taking seriously a debate among Democrats on whether to launch the process that could remove the president on the basis of evidence of obstruction of justice in the Mueller report released last week. But Mueller demurred on concluding if they amounted to a crime, leaving that decision to Congress, where the House of Representatives has the power to impeach a president – formally charge him – and the Senate to find him innocent or guilty.
In a 1993 case testing those principles, the Supreme Court itself ruled unanimously that it did not have a role.
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