“Trump is not a lawyer” – Ruth Bader Ginsburg…”The president is not a lawyer,” she told the BBC in an exclusive interview, adding: “He’s not law trained.”

What did Ms Ginsburg say about impeachment?

Earlier this month, the president suggested in a tweet that the Supreme Court could step in.

“Radical Left has NO CASE. Read the Transcripts. Shouldn’t even be allowed. Can we go to Supreme Court to stop?”

When the BBC’s Razia Iqbal asked the justice what her reading of the constitution was in this context, she replied: “The president is not a lawyer, he’s not law trained.”

Ms Ginsburg was talking to the BBC at an event where she was awarded the Berggruen Prize for philosophy and culture, which is awarded annually to someone whose ideas “have profoundly shaped human understanding and advancement”.

In the conversation, she also implied that senators who display bias should be disqualified from acting as jurors in the trial.

There was criticism over the weekend of Mitch McConnell, who leads the Republican party in the Senate, for saying an acquittal was a foregone conclusion.

When asked about senators making up their minds before the trial, the Supreme Court Justice said: “Well if a judge said that, a judge would be disqualified from sitting on the case.”

Watch The Interview:  https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50829474