Trump threatens Supreme Court fight against impeachment

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President Donald Trump threatened Wednesday to fight a possible impeachment effort by Congressional Democrats in the US Supreme Court.

That could be difficult — the US constitution and the court itself has made clear that it has no role in impeachment proceedings, which represent the legislature’s power to check wrongdoing by the president.

“The Mueller Report, despite being written by Angry Democrats and Trump Haters, and with unlimited money behind it , didn’t lay a glove on me. I DID NOTHING WRONG,” Trump wrote.“If the partisan Dems ever tried to Impeach, I would first head to the US Supreme Court.” 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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