(November 18, 2015 at 1:15 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:The SCOTUS can't reverse a presidential impeachment. It has no jurisdiction in the matter other than the Chief Justice presides over it. But once the Senate convicts it's a done deal.(November 18, 2015 at 12:59 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: Pretty sure that if a sitting president was convicted by the Senate for something that is in fact, not a statutory crime (say, wearing mismatched socks), we would have at minimum an issue for SCOTUS to decide, if not an outright constitutional crisis.
I have no doubt SCOTUS would void any conviction based on the fact that no crime had been demonstrated. And more to the point, I have no doubt that the Congress, knowing that, would not dream of charging a President with a non-crime.
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