1.  The Court is invested with the authority to Decide constitutional cases.

2.  By Saturday, the reciters of the evidentiary record will give way to a trio of House members who are supposed to focus on the constitutional case for removal.

3.  He called the McLaughlin matter a clear-cut constitutional case.

4.  However, Justice Antonin Scalia wondered whether it is not a stretch to make this a constitutional case.

5.  Key constitutional cases from Ohio and Wisconsin are headed toward the U.S. Supreme Court.

6.  Nothing decrees that if the Supreme Court wrongly decides a constitutional case, the subject is closed.

7.  Of course, this makes his constitutional case all the more compelling.

8.  Removing a popular president is unworkable in the absence of a compelling constitutional case.

9.  Scalia is also a proponent of that approach, and the two justices nearly always reach the same outcome in constitutional cases.

10.  The House managers offer no prospect of producing new evidence that would nail down a constitutional case for removal.