Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Who would preside over an impeachment trial where the chief justice is being impeached?

Please cite your source!|||The Chief Justice only serves when the President or Vice President is impeached. In all other cases the Vice President, who also serves as President of the Senate, presides. In his/her absence, the President pro tempore (Senator Byrd currently) would preside





http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/hist鈥?/a>|||Article 3, section 2 of the United States Constitution.





The Vice President would be the leader of an impeachment as the supreme court does not get involved in this preceding unless the President himself is being impeached.





"The Trial of all Crimes, except in Cases of Impeachment, shall be by Jury; and such Trial shall be held in the State where the said Crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any State, the Trial shall be at such Place or Places as the Congress may by Law have directed."|||The US Senate.


The House of Representatives would have to bring charges (impeach) and then refer the inditement to the senate for trial. It would take 2/3 of the Senate to convict.


Presumably the Vice President would oversee the trial. Only one Justice has ever been impeached but the Senate failed to convict him.

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