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Atticus

(15,124 posts)
Thu Jan 16, 2020, 12:59 PM Jan 2020

"preside": "to exercise guidance, direction and control". That's how the dictionary defines [View all]

the term.

The Constitution says that the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court shall preside over the impeachment trial of a POTUS.

Will he, or will he refer all decisions ( relevancy, subpoenas, etc. ) to McConnell and his squirming caucus?

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