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Follow RT on Democrats have chosen Patrick Leahy, known as one of the most partisan members of the Senate, to preside over Donald Trump s impeachment trial after Chief Justice John Roberts declined a role not called for in the Constitution. The job fell to Leahy (D-Vermont), president pro tempore of the Senate, on Monday because the US Constitution provides for the chief justice to serve as judge only when a sitting president or vice president is impeached. In fact, the Constitution doesn t specifically make provision for a former president at all – an omission that critics such as former representative Bob Barr (R-Georgia) have argued means the Senate has no standing to convict Trump.

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