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Posted on 12/20/2019 7:21:00 AM PST by Kaslin
Just stop at the top.
The US Senate does NOT OWE the House any “ procedural guarantees”
The Constitution is clear and specific on that
Pelosi is intruding into Senate powers
Lets hope Yertle and Graham smack her down
No, the Senate is not in any way locked into existing rules and practices, and may change them at any time just as the house has done.
Uh, this is a guide of what is supposed to happen next, not a guide to what will actually happen.
As pro trump Asian I’m disappointed by the way GOP deal with this impeachment. At time like this my Asian instinct tells me that whoever follow rules when come to a fight will lose
It appears, on its face, to be un-Constitutional for the House Speaker or House Impeachment Managers to have any input, say-so, veto power, or any other influence on the Senate’s Rules for Impeachment. Nancy should be told to sit down and shut up.
One of Pelosi’s constituents in San Fran recently demonstrated, I the aisle of a supermarket, how you might use the articles of impeachment.
Expect a bunch of noise protestations and nonsense out of the Democrats
She is holding off on sending impeachment to use as leverage in 2020 senate campaigns.
This impeachment is an insurance policy, the 2020 campaign issue will be “save roe v wade”. The dems need to win the senate. Once they have the senate they can throw out Trump and stack the SCOTUS.
Don’t worry. Right now the House is hostage to an axiomatic principle - tribunals consider cases brought to them. The people bringing the cases don’t make the tribunal’s rules, the tribunal does.
What McConnell has signaled is that when the house exhibits articles, as it has resolved to do, after that, the senate will make the rules how to handle that case. He’s not bound to follow the old rules, but they do provide a fair guide as to what constitutes “due deliberation” when a serious case is brought.
Meanwhile, Nancy is holding a house resolution that promises to exhibit articles to the senate. Is the house good to do what it resolves?
Don’t kid yourselves folks. McConnell is firmly in charge of this farce. The Democrats have no leverage. This will be the shortest trial in history. Look for 1-2 days of statements from each side then a vote to dismiss/acquit.
Agree, I fear this has all may be a dry run.
Trump is now on Double Secret Probation, except it's not secret. Pelosi has directed that a letter be inserted into Trump's Official File, which isn't secret, either.
Failing at their 4th attempt to impeach won’t even slow them down. They won’t stop until they are stopped. You cannot share a country with people who are rabidly delusional.
Leave it to a ***ing lawyer to turn something simple into a complex nightmare.
Nice!
They can't - arithmetically - win enough Senate seats in 2020 to convict Trump without wholesale Republican defections which is difficult to see without any actual legal statutes being cited in the articles of impeachment.
Even if they did, Pence becomes President, and he's more conservative than Trump.
And if the 'rats win the Senate and RBG joins the choir invisible, well, filling the seat with a conservative justice is best, but leaving the seat open with one fewer liberal justice is still one less liberal vote.
They can still defeat Trump at the ballot box in November, but then what is the point of the whole impeachment exercise?
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