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Trump says he would challenge impeachment in Supreme Court | TheHill

posted onApril 25, 2019
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Article snippet: MORE on Wednesday said that he would attempt to challenge impeachment in the Supreme Court if Democrats carried out such proceedings, though it's unclear the high court would hear such a case. "The Mueller Report, despite being written by Angry Democrats and Trump Haters, and with unlimited money behind it ($35,000,000), didn’t lay a glove on me. I DID NOTHING WRONG," Trump tweeted. "If the partisan Dems ever tried to Impeach, I would first head to the U.S. Supreme Court. Not only are there no 'High Crimes and Misdemeanors,' there are no Crimes by me at all," he continued. The president accused Democrats, * RELATED CONTENT Where 2020 Democratic candidates stand on impeachmentWarren defends call for impeachment proceedings against TrumpWaters: 'We must impeach Putin's president Trump'Former Trump transition official calls for impeachment * There is little precedent to support the idea of the Supreme Court weighing in on the merits of impeachment, as a sitting president has not previously challenged impeachment proceedings in the high court. The Supreme Court ruled in the 1993 case of federal Judge Walter Nixon that whether the Senate properly conducted an impeachment trial was a political question, and therefore nonjusticiable. Laurence Tribe, a constitutional law professor at Harvard University, rejected the possibility of Trump taking an impeachment to the Supreme Court. "Not even a SCOTUS filled with Trump appointees would get in the way of the House or Senate,... Link to the full article to read more

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