“I think it is appropriate for me to admonish both the House managers and the president’s counsel in equal terms to remember that they are addressing the world’s greatest deliberative body,” the chief justice said. He noted that a House manager was chided for using the word “pettifogging” during the 1905 impeachment trial of a judge. “I don’t think we need to aspire to that high a standard, but I do think those addressing the Senate should remember where they are.”[16]
