CNN: ":"\u003cstrong>Chief Justice:\u003c/strong> John Roberts takes center stage", " [lubuntu compaq1]

" , title: "CNN - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos" , siblings: {"articleList":[{"uri":"/2020/01/29/politics/john-roberts-awkward-impeachment-questions/index.html","headline":"\u003cstrong>Chief Justice:\u003c/strong> John Roberts takes center stage","thumbnail":"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200122012658-john-roberts-january-22-2020-small-11.jpg","duration":"","description":"Since the Senate \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-impeachment-trial-01-28-20/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">impeachment trial\u003c/a> began last week, Chief Justice \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/25/us/john-g-roberts-fast-facts/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">John Roberts\u003c/a> has been mainly out of the camera's line of sight. He has, clerk-like, enforced Senate procedures and kept the clock for the lawyers at the lectern. He has tried to maintain the chamber's decorum, as when he \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/22/politics/john-roberts-scolds-legal-teams-senate-trial-chief-justice/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">admonished the legal teams \u003c/a>against nastiness, citing a 1905 Senate trial precedent against use of the word \"pettifogging.\"","layout":""