Since the Senate impeachment trial began last week, Chief Justice John Roberts has been out of sight of the camera. Like a writer, he applied senate procedures and kept the watch for lawyers at the podium. He tried to preserve the décor of the room, as when he warned legal teams of distress, referring to a precedent in the Senate in 1905 against the use of the word "pettifogging".
He made some irony, as when Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell wished him a merry Christmas on Monday and 65-year-old Roberts responded: "Well, thank you very much for these kind wishes, and thank all senators for that. Don't ask for yeast and night".
Starting Wednesday, Roberts will be less melancholy and clearer. It will be the voice of the senators, with his vision in the middle of the screen reading their questions. Roberts will ask questions that senators write on models for U.S. House of Representatives directors and President Donald Trump's lawyer.
If he follows the example of Chief Justice William Rehnquist in president Bill Clinton's 1999 trial, Roberts will ask questions with the least possible impression and emotion, reading the verbatim transcripts of the models. At the beginning of each query, Roberts is expected to announce -- by tradition -- the senator who asked the question.
However, it may become embarrassing, as the President of the U.S. Supreme Court may be pressured to ask questions - based on some of the assertions already made in the room - regarding Trump as a "deception... He signed, instead, for Hunter Biden, former Vice President Joe Biden, who was targeted by Trump's defense team
He made some irony, as when Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell wished him a merry Christmas on Monday and 65-year-old Roberts responded: "Well, thank you very much for these kind wishes, and thank all senators for that. Don't ask for yeast and night".
Starting Wednesday, Roberts will be less melancholy and clearer. It will be the voice of the senators, with his vision in the middle of the screen reading their questions. Roberts will ask questions that senators write on models for U.S. House of Representatives directors and President Donald Trump's lawyer.
If he follows the example of Chief Justice William Rehnquist in president Bill Clinton's 1999 trial, Roberts will ask questions with the least possible impression and emotion, reading the verbatim transcripts of the models. At the beginning of each query, Roberts is expected to announce -- by tradition -- the senator who asked the question.
However, it may become embarrassing, as the President of the U.S. Supreme Court may be pressured to ask questions - based on some of the assertions already made in the room - regarding Trump as a "deception... He signed, instead, for Hunter Biden, former Vice President Joe Biden, who was targeted by Trump's defense team
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