Leahy, not Roberts, to preside over impeachment trial
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If anything, you can interpret that the Chief Justice does not need to preside BECAUSE it is not the President (current) being tried. Furthermore, "The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments" gives cover to proceed even though Trump is "out of office" because he was impeached. Seems like there is cover that it is not treason, just an unprecedented occasion.
What does seem short-sighted is that supposedly Trump or his representative(s) would be able to bring up election fraud evidence and / or the real story of the Capitol "insurrection". Will be interesting to see if there is an avenue for this or if it turns out to be a railroad trial where the "rules" prevent either from happening.
That's a good point, actually. Fits with the gun salute conundrum, where they apparently didn't treat Biden as POTUS, too.
Agree; I can't yet see that happening, too.