The House must vote to begin the impeachment process against Trump if it believes he committed bribery, treason, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.
Laurence Tribe, a constitutional law professor at Harvard University, told TIME that the Supreme Court has no authority to hear legal challenges to impeachment proceedings.
“The court is very good at slapping down attempts to drag things out by bringing it into a dispute where it has no jurisdiction,” said Tribe.
In a tweet, Tribe called Trump’s argument regarding the matter an “idiocy.”
Trump’s idiocy won’t serve him well as we move through the #impeachment process. Not even a SCOTUS filled with Trump appointees would get in the way of the House or Senate, where CJ Roberts would preside over Trump’s Impeachment Trial. My book with @JoshuaMatz8 lays it all out. https://t.co/eXTCX2wFnZ
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) April 24, 2019
Mueller Report did not exonerate Trump on the question of obstruction
Since the release of the Mueller Report, a number of Democrats have been calling for impeachment proceedings against Trump. Special Counsel Robert Mueller III and his team of investigators did not establish criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia on election interference.
