Nostra
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Lies.They can drag this out but not like this. But I say go for it.
What we had under Obama was the Republicans blocking him from getting a vote on a Supreme Court justice. Now the Dem's will attempt to do the same.
So we have had Pelosi running with impeachment to try and stop Trump from doing anything but what is going to happen is the Republicans will do the same thing when a (D) president wins.
Being that we are now run by extremely partisan imbeciles on both sides, gridlock will be a good thing.
That's different because the Republicans had the power to block Obama's nominee. The Democrats as a minority don't have that option available. It would be like if the Democrats led the Senate now. They would be able to block any of Trump's nominees.
So what Piglosi is saying is they will do anything they can, regardless of how illegal it may be, to usurp the power of the Senate.
Impeachment is a punitive action for high crimes and misdemeanors. A President or Senate doing their job as outlined in the Constitution is neither.
The Constitution gives a sitting president the right to nominate and have his candidate considered.
The Constitution gives the power to nominate to the President. His power ends there. The Constitution give the advise and consent power to the Senate to do however they see fit.
Ignoring a nomination has been done several times in the past. Nothing Mitch did has not been done before.