Some House Democrats push Pelosi to withhold impeachment articles, delaying Senate trial
When will Speaker Pelosi send Articles of Impeachment to the Senate for trial? Apparently that is her choice if/when she sends them over for trial. It sounds like she is strategically waiting for feedback from McConnell about the rules/procedures - and FAIRNESS. If she thinks it's just going to be a sham trial - she may not send them over. The Articles of Impeachment DO NOT EXPIRE - not next year; not next Congress; not ever.
What do you think?
Sure they do. If they aren't filed by the the time the current Congress ends, a new Congress would have to pass them in order to transmit them to the Senate.
I wouldn't sweat it, we'll see what they do with them once they return from holiday.
NANCY PELOSY SOOPER GENIUS REMINDS ME OF OUR CAT WHEN HE GOT HIS HEAD IN A PAPER BAG AND COULDN’T FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET IT OUT:
McConnell gives Pelosi some advice on the word “leverage”.
Why would the Republicans care if Democrats
never send the articles to the Senate?”
Now
Mitch McConnell weighs in:
McConnell said Schumer wanted “a special pretrial guarantee” that “House Democrats themselves did not bother to pursue as they assembled their case.”
McConnell also criticized House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., for taking the “highly unusual step” of waiting to transmit the approved House articles of impeachment against Trump to the Senate.
McConnell said he didn’t understand the move by Pelosi and said, while cracking a smile, that he didn’t agree with the idea that delaying the transmission might give her leverage in dictating the rules of the Senate trial.
“I admit, I’m not sure what leverage there is from refraining from sending us something we do not want,” McConnell said. “But alas, if they can figure that out, they can explain it.”
Impeachment has jumped the shark.