If there is 50/50 tie in the trial.............what is the law and order judge going to do..........

[turbinetree]

go back and say to himself and say well I tried.................... keep the status quo......................after all the Federalist Society runs this country now....................

What are you going to do Roberts..........................that is the question


November 3, 2020 cannot get here fast enough..........................

[Atticus]

1. He will skate. "It would be inappropriate---yada----yada----yada----" nt

[beachbumbob]

2. a 50/50 tie is hung jury, a 11-1 can be a hung jury, Impeachment needs 60 votes, never was

going to happen and Roberts has no hand in on the rules.

[rso]

3. Roberts

Conviction requires 67 votes, not 60.

[Codeine]

4. He'll follow the Constitution

which clearly states the margin needed for a conviction. That’s what any judge in that position would do, as that is what is required.

An ellipsis has three dots, and is not an all-purpose generic punctuation. I will never grasp why some posters consider endless strings of periods sprinkled randomly across their sentences to be anything other than an eyesore.

[fescuerescue]

7. It's a way of introducing a pause in online text

Certainly not permitted in any school English class, but the Internet tends to make it's own rules.

[spanone]

5. NOTHING.

[fescuerescue]

6. Then Trump wins by 17 votes

since 50 is 17 short.

[zentrum]

9. He'll do nothing. But

...he will close by intoning Gawd.

[sarisataka]

10. What is he supposed to do?

Is there some part of the Constitution I missed that says the Chief Justice can order a retrial?

There won't be a 50/50 tie in any case. It takes 2/3rds votes to convict, any less is acquittal. For some reason this seems to be difficult for many to understand.

[Baclava]

12. People are confusing the call of 50/50 for witnesses and the final vote to acquit needing 67 votes

[turbinetree]

14. It is a way to get the witnesses on the stand..................only..................

the game plan has been set, the republicans need to eat this....................till November....................

[malaise]

15. Have a seizure?

[pecosbob]

16. Who would ever refer to Roberts as 'law and order' judge?

The man gave us Citizen's United and brought us Randall vs. Sorrel (campaign finance laws which limit expenditures violate the First Amendment, and the anticorruption benefits of contribution limits must be weighed against their First Amendment costs). Sounds to me like a judge for the wealthy and priveleged.

[AncientGeezer]

17. 50-50(irrelavant)..takes 67 to convict....what's your question?

CJ will have ZERO input