won't be able to run his $10 million worth of exoneration ads during the Super Bowl.

He be hazzing a SAD if that happens! And his little friend Hannity will have to change the narrative for their interview.

But it seems to me that Adam Schiff wouldn't be appealing to the Chief Justice if he didn't think there was a legal avenue to pursue through him.

Something else I seem to remember: when Schiff was on Rachel's program the other night, she asked him if the Dems would go to Roberts if the GOP successfully blocked witness testimony. He shot her a look of "don't go there" and said that he couldn't answer that question, that he didn't want to disclose the Dem's strategy. It indicated to me that that WAS the Dem's strategy.

That said that was what happened during the Johnson impeachment and it takes a 2/3 vote to overrule the Chief Justice. But the Chief Justice would have final say on who would be permitted to be a witness and one of the criteria would be relevance to the current case. But Roberts is a pretty political justice so no slam dunk.

Besides, Roberts has shown no indication that he would do that anyway. Remember, it was his vote that put Citizens United over the top. He is not our ally.

n/t

But, if that DOES happen, wonder how well he’ll take that override going forward

Huge blow to his ego/position

So that is no barrier, except for Trump's fragile ego and the GrOPers total abjection to his every whim.

If this extends beyond SOTU, * will be a no show. He'll cancel and want to postpone SOTU until after the Senate wraps up. He's too chicken shit to venture into the lion's den unless he has an "acquittal" in hand.

read that his family has convinced him to resign for health reasons. But his family is too entrenched in their fleecing of the US Treasury for their own benefit that they have nowhere to go...

It plays well to the apparent “fence-sitters”

Legal scholars & pundits say he can't claim privilege because he's discussed the substance of the Bolton charges on Twitter.

Right?