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In reply to the discussion: Trump says he would challenge impeachment in Supreme Court [View all]The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,280 posts)is solely the responsibility of Congress (Article I, section 2). It says the House of Representatives "shall have the sole Power of Impeachment" and that "the Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments." And in 1993 the Supreme Court, in an opinion by Chief Justice Rehnquist - who was actually much more of a partisan hack than Roberts, in case you don't remember him - held that the federal courts have no jurisdiction over impeachment procedures for that reason, and specifically because impeachment is a political question which the courts can't involve themselves in. Nixon v. United States, 506 U.S. 224. They can't change the rules (the Senate's rules for impeachment trials are here, https://www.law.cornell.edu/background/impeach/senaterules.pdf ) if they don't have jurisdiction to even look at the rules. Don't forget, the conservatives on the Supreme Court are constitutional originalists who are not likely to ignore the plain language of the Constitution itself, or an opinion of arch-conservative Rehnquist.