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Pelosi: Articles of impeachment will be sent to Senate to allow Trump trial to begin next week
By Brooke Singman | Fox News |January 10, 2020:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Friday that she will take steps next week to send impeachment articles to the Senate, after delaying the process since last month in a bid to extract favorable terms in a trial.
Story continues below advertisement“I have asked Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler to be prepared to bring to the Floor next week a resolution to appoint managers and transmit articles of impeachment to the Senate. I will be consulting with you at our Tuesday House Democratic Caucus meeting on how we proceed further,” Pelosi, D-Calif., wrote in a letter to colleagues.
The decision to release the articles came as fellow Democrats in recent days had started to voice frustration and impatience with the speaker’s approach. They stressed the urgency with which impeachment was treated at the end of 2019 and questioned why the House would then delay a trial by using articles as leverage.
Pelosi nevertheless defended her approach in the memo Friday, stressing important new information on the Ukraine controversy at the heart of impeachment that emerged during the interim.
“I am very proud of the courage and patriotism exhibited by our House Democratic Caucus as we support and defend the Constitution,” she wrote. She continued to press the Senate, as she has for weeks, to conduct a “fair trial” with witnesses and documents.
“In an impeachment trial, every Senator takes an oath to ‘do impartial justice according to the Constitution and laws.’ Every Senator now faces a choice: to be loyal to the President or to the Constitution,” she wrote. “No one is above the law, not even the President.”
Pelosi’s demands in recent days included calling on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., to reveal the resolution that would set the terms for the trial before she would transmit the articles.
Pelosi and her allies seemingly wanted a commitment to call certain Democrat-sought witnesses, and at least learn more about McConnell’s plans. But McConnell wouldn’t budge, insisting that the Senate first launch the trial, and then resolve issues surrounding witnesses later, declaring that he would not haggle with Pelosi and accusing her Thursday of playing “irresponsible games.”
While Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., had largely backed Pelosi in calling for commitments from McConnell, other Democratic senators began this week to pressure the House to get moving.
“I think it’s time to turn the articles over,” Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., said Wednesday on Fox News’ “America’s Newsroom.” “Let’s see where the Senate can take it.”
Even Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., called out Pelosi for the delay.
“The longer it goes on, the less urgent it becomes,” Feinstein told Politico. “So if it’s serious and urgent, send them over. If it isn’t, don’t send it over.”
Sens. Angus King, D-Maine; Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn.; and Chris Coons, D-Del., also came out this week calling for the process to move along.
“I respect the fact that she is concerned about the fact about whether or not there will be a fair trial,” Coons told Politico this week. “But I do think it is time to get on with it.”
McConnell has repeatedly said the resolution to govern the impeachment trial in the Senate would mirror the one used for then-President Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial in 1999 — setting a timeframe for the trial to begin, with the opportunity for lawmakers to determine how to proceed on potential witness testimony and additional documents later, after both the defense and the prosecution make their opening statements.
McConnell said earlier this week he has the votes needed to pass the resolution and begin the trial, once he receives the articles. In impeachment, most resolutions can pass with a simple majority — 51 votes. To remove the president from office, though, there must be 67 votes.
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17 Comments
4 years ago
Congress has NO SAY over SENATE RULES.
Pelosi CHANGED her rules to shut down the GOP opposition.
The GOP is the minority in Congress.
Yet, wants to CONTROL what goes on in the Senate. with the DEMS as the minority.
♦First, Nancy Pelosi specifically set up the House committee rules to:
(1) drop any committee notification for the minority;
(2) drop any need for committee participation by the minority.
What this first point highlights is the scale of pre-planning from 2018 (last year), for this impeachment scheme.
♦Second, the planning of Cohen as the first step in an impeachment process was entirely predictable. [SEE HERE] On a positive note, Jim Jordan appears to know the scheme.
So the Democrats can refuse to notify the Republicans about their actions and refuse to allow them to participate.
Additionally, the committee can issue subpoenas without input from the minority; AND the committee can conduct depositions without informing the minority.
4 years ago
4 years ago
Doesn’t matter, the Senate will disregard the entire impeachment hoax and move forward with government business with eggs on democrat faces.
4 years ago
Reply to
SoftwareBabeOHIO
DEMS are targeting the Senate. The GOP only has a slim majority and think they can get the majority and control both houses. I hope they DO vote on impeachment with a trial. I don’t think that will work out well for DEMS- just guessing.
4 years ago
Reply to
Robb
It’s too bad the GOPe puts their corrupt self interests FIRST over allowing Trump to be vindicated through a trial and exposing the DEMS . Then again, the GOPe has dirty hands too with Ukraine….. It would be like a truce within the corrupt uniparty. The GOPe doesn’t want Trump in there either. Ask Lindsey Graham about that and HIS dealings with the Ukraine.
4 years ago
SENATE:
You had better throw these Articles of Impeachment out of the Senate, as BOGUS AND FALSE, if you value your positions in Congress!
TRUMP IS INNOCENT AND YOU AND THE REST OF US KNOW THIS. To keep this Impeachment WILL SEND YOU PACKING in the next election.
DEMOCRATS ARE SPIRITUALLY DEAD.
4 years ago
If you overlook the ” he said, she said ” nature of this ridiculous situation, what you’re left with is an American version of the policy of ” frustrate by lawfare/procedure ” {we in the UK put up with for three and a half years over BREXIT}the executive branch of a populist conservative government by it’s defeated adversaries.
You will never get those socialists to admit the’re sore resentful losers but that’s what they are and it’s their antics which drag down the reputation of your congress and the senate in the same way our parliaments reputation was brought low by our “remainers”.
Both of these examples of bad behaviour induce me to pull my hair out because there are so many other things more important which need doing than this eternal navel gazing introspection.
4 years ago
Reply to
Poppey
After Obama, it’s hard to imagine our country could be more embarrassed.
We have had bad Presidents before but IMO, Obama is the worst in our history.
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
How many bombs? How many Countries? Helped organize and fund ISIS? Sordid George must have purchased the Nobel Committee….
He deserved that peace prize like Jeffrey Dahmer deserved clemency ….
4 years ago
Reply to
Ray Cane
Obama and Kerry conspired with Iran to allow them to pursue ballistic missile program, as well as uranium enrichment program and supplied mullah with billions of dollars.
4 years ago
murderous sow
4 years ago
Count your lucky stars. Somewhere there is a Mr. Pelosi.
4 years ago
It was suggested elsewhere this a.m. that since the Dems prefer Biden, delaying the articles of impeachment delivery to the Senate would keep the other Dem contenders, except for Buttegieg, from politicking for the Iowa Caucus.
