Posted on 01/20/2020 3:38:13 PM PST by jazusamo
RESOLUTION AT LINK.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Monday released a resolution laying out the ground rules for President Donald Trump's impeachment trial.
Trump's team and the House of Representatives have until 9 a.m. on Wednesday to file any motions. The exception being motions to subpoena witnesses or documents. All responses filed to any motions have to be in by 11 a.m. on Wednesday.
The trial will begin at 1 p.m. on Wednesday. The House will have two days to make their case for impeachment but their time allotment cannot exceed 24 hours. After that, Trump's legal team will be given two days to make their case and again, that cannot exceed a 24 hour time period.
Once the president's team finishes their presentation, senators can ask questions but they are limited to a 16-hour time frame. There will then be a 4-hour argument split between the House and Trump's team. Deliberation will follow. At that time the Senate will decide whether or not to subpoena witnesses or documents.
If the Senate decides to allow either side to subpoena witnesses, the witnesses will undergo a deposition and then the Senate will decide if those witnesses will testify.
Once the deliberations are concluded the Senate will vote on each individual article of impeachment.
Below is the full resolution:
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Good ole Vinny. LOL!
As expected, the Senate will take the high road and treat the s#it sandwich as if it was prime rib. But OK.
All communists will just lie. It’s what they do, like the saracens.
Not just piss and moan, but accuse evert Republican in the Senate of being a Nazi or a Russian spy, just because they don’t find Trump guilty of whatever they say.
Cleanup in aisle 23!
If Schmuckey Choomer haz a sad then I haz a big happy! :)
I guess there is a 1976 act that prohibits the Executive from stopping funds from Congress?
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In the brief his attorneys listed several other instances where funds were paused:
In September 2019, the Administration announced that it was withholding over $100 million in aid to Afghanistan over concerns about government corruption.
In August 2019, President Trump announced that the Administration and Seoul were in talks to “substantially” increase South Korea’s share of the expense of U.S. military support for South Korea.
In June, President Trump cut or paused over $550 million in foreign aid to El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala because those countries were not fairly sharing the burdens of preventing mass migration to the United States.
In or around June, the Administration temporarily paused $105 million in military aid to Lebanon. The Administration lifted the hold in December, with one official explaining that the Administration “continually reviews and thoroughly evaluates the effectiveness of all United States foreign assistance to ensure that funds go toward activities that further U.S. foreign policy and national security interests."
In September 2018, the Administration cancelled $300 million in military aid to Pakistan because it was not meeting its counter-terrorism obligations.
I guess essentially the argument they make is if the House votes to say, oh, I don’t know, fund the Sandinistas, for the Executive to stop that goes against the Act that was passed in the 1970s. As far as I recall Reagan didn’t stop their funding but countered, as I am applaud him for doing, funding the Contras.
Will they allow the House to present Hearsay or Supposition testimony?
Ugh, so the Democrats get 24 hours to complain and slander the POTUS with no counter questions from Republicans? Yuck. I am guessing this had to be done to appease the squishes like Collins and Romney?
We both have a happy, Schmuckie isn’t happy. :^)
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He didn’t stop the funds, he delayed them from the Ukraine receiving them.
The Impoundment Act, but if these were funds released on quarterly apportionment and the funds were released in their designated quarter, then there was no illegal holding.
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McConnell has put into the rules the possibility of dismissal at the outset.
Close to what I suggested...almost exactly what I suggested.
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