Justice Roberts was gifted a golden gavel for enduring the impeachment trial

John Roberts.
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Chief Justice John Roberts was in the unenviable position of having to sit through the entirety of the Senate impeachment trial over the last few weeks while also continuing to serve on the Supreme Court, but at least he got a present out of it.

At the conclusion of the trial, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) presented Roberts with a golden gavel, which is typically awarded to new senators after they've sat in their chair for more than 100 hours. But McConnell thought it was ok to break with tradition in this instance.

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Tim O'Donnell

Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.