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GOP Leadership Memo Suggests Senate Cannot Block Trial If House Votes To Impeach Trump
Huffpost ^ | Sept 28 2019 | Mary Papenfuss

Posted on 09/29/2019 10:04:26 PM PDT by rintintin

The Republican leadership issued a memo Saturday clarifying that the Senate must take action if the House of Representatives approves articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump. The statement came in response to concerns that the Senate could simply refuse to hold a trial.

“There is no way we could somehow bar the doors and prevent the managers from presenting the articles to the Senate,” stated the memo, which was obtained by HuffPost. “The rules of impeachment are clear on this point.”

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) also said as much in a March interview with NPR: “If it [impeachment] were to happen, the Senate has no choice. If the House were to act, the Senate immediately goes into a trial.”

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: 116th; impeachment; kentucky; leadermcconnell; mcconnell; mitchmcconnell; republicans; senate; senatetrial; trumpimpeachment
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To: Aria
At this point I think they all want Trump gone so they can get rid of the headache and get back to lining their pockets by selling off this country to China.

You are just now realizing that?

61 posted on 09/30/2019 4:40:09 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: rintintin

No problem... the Repubs own the agenda in the Senate.. bring on the witnesses who will benefit Trump’s cause.

McConnell may have his faults, but he’s not going to screw Trump.


62 posted on 09/30/2019 4:40:11 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Every liberal should be red-flagged.)
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To: rxsid

The 100,000,000 that don’t vote aren’t stupid. It just that the Republicans as constituted are not a good alternative to the Democrats so they sit it out. The Globalist Cheap Labor Express Party ( i.e. the GOP ) is not appealing to the working class of this country. That’s the problem.


63 posted on 09/30/2019 4:48:49 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: rintintin

A trial in the Senate is not a trial of President Trump. No, it is WE who will be on trial.


64 posted on 09/30/2019 4:50:59 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: ealgeone

I understand where you are coming from but I don’t see how you include Paul on that list. He’s been supporting the President fervently since POTUS has been declining to take the war bait in North Korea and Iran.

Romney, yes I see it as his people are implicated in the Ukraine corruption.

Collins may vote for an impeachment trial or maybe not. It depends on how well she would defend the Articles of Impeachment. She is straight enough to summarize whether such merits exist or not.

Murkowski may abstain as she did on Kavanaugh. She is a weak member.

Isackson I don’t know about.

Lee in Utah might be added as he recently appears to be compromised.

We can expect the cable and legacy broadcast media to block all the President’s defenses even as they are played out on CSPAN or in parts of social media that are not suppressed. They will follow with suspicious polls saying the public wants an impeachment trial.


65 posted on 09/30/2019 4:53:53 AM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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To: jz638

“I doubt they would have the guts to even vote against him in secret, but it would be useful to know that if not.”

If the vote was secret, many of those worms would vote against Trump.


66 posted on 09/30/2019 4:56:02 AM PDT by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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To: rintintin
Don’t forget, Mitch is at his core, deeply anti Trump. He can’t afford to voice that because then he’d lose control and probably, his post. But he’d be happy to remove Trump and claim his hands were tied not by the Constitution but probably by Senate Rules.
67 posted on 09/30/2019 5:01:20 AM PDT by ExSoldier ("Terrorists: They hate you yesterday, today, and tomorrow. End it, no more tomorrows for them!)
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To: tired&retired

Are you new? Nothing that negatively impatcts the Dems will even make it to the airwaves


68 posted on 09/30/2019 5:03:52 AM PDT by wiseprince
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To: tired&retired

Are you new? Nothing that negatively impatcts the Dems will even make it to the airwaves


69 posted on 09/30/2019 5:03:53 AM PDT by wiseprince
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To: wiseprince

Are you new? Nothing that negatively impatcts the Dems will even make it to the airwaves


Which is exactly why we need Senate hearing now. The media can’t ignore that. Start with Biden Jr. Show President Trump had good reason to ask Ukraine for help and it becomes impossible to impeach him over this.

Really, this isn’t complicated. I can only believe at this point the GOP Senate wants Trump impeached by the House.


70 posted on 09/30/2019 5:07:50 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: rintintin

Let me tell you folks something....POTUS, Donald J. Trump will never be fully impeached, even if the House of Representatives impeaches him by vote. In fact: the Democrat Party is destroying itself politically with every passing day. They have not one viable 2020 POTUS, Candidate. If the American voters are smart, they stopp watching all the Democrat POTUS debate...they are worthless and useless combined!!! Shucks they are dragging out Hillary Clinton from her political grave to try for the POTUS ring once more!!! Pelosi is riding the wrong horse and she is going down. Trump will be re-elected by a landslide victory never seen before!!! Joe Biden...WHO DAT? And “EVERY” Moderate & Blue Dog Democrat that casts their vote to impeach DJT will be easily defeated in November, 2020!!!

The Democrats have no real money...Trump is sucking all of the cash up in lightening fashion....$20-25,000,000 bucks this last weekend from small donors!!! Only God knows how much cash Trump has on hand!!!

And...AG, Barr & company is about to really sink in, the Democrat low life, scum, vermin and traitor/turncoats over the month of October, STAY TUNED...FOLKS!!!


71 posted on 09/30/2019 5:08:30 AM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: wiseprince

I heard you the first time...LOL

If you get a chance to listen to the Mark Levin interview, most of the facts incriminating Biden, including his sons acting as a Chinese and Ukrainian agent, purchasing companies with duel use technology for China, and purchasing a company that was indicted for stealing U.S.Nuclear Secrets, has been out there in the public domain for years.

You are correct, it never hit the news, I can’t wait to read Stephen Schweitzer’s book on this.


72 posted on 09/30/2019 5:22:08 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: rxsid

Your post is spot on. Do it!


73 posted on 09/30/2019 5:26:01 AM PDT by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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To: mlo

>Not sure what you mean. The only vote in the House that matters to the Senate is if they vote to impeach. That would come after any impeachment inquiry.

The House doesn’t have “inquiries” or “legal investigations”. The House impeaches, and the Senate does the investigations and decides whether to remove or not.


74 posted on 09/30/2019 5:26:11 AM PDT by struggle
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To: ealgeone
I wouldn't be too sure of that as I worry about these: Murkowski Collins Romney Isackson Paul

Nobody gives a fig what any of those idiots think. Do the trial, hold the vote. There won't be two thirds to convict.

75 posted on 09/30/2019 5:28:54 AM PDT by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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To: rintintin

Is there any thing from the Senate from letting a coup take place.


76 posted on 09/30/2019 5:29:11 AM PDT by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT!)
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To: struggle

The House doesn’t have “inquiries” or “legal investigations”. The House impeaches, and the Senate does the investigations and decides whether to remove or not.


Interesting. So why then did House Dems rain subpoenas on the Trump admin last week?

You seem to be ignoring the political reality here. It’s the Dems doing all the investigation. The GOP, to quote another FReeper, is in a coma right now.


77 posted on 09/30/2019 5:31:23 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: jz638
If the house votes for articles of impeachment, the Senate can immediately impose Scottish law and find that the articles are not proven.

Channeling your inner Arlen Specter?

78 posted on 09/30/2019 5:32:18 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: EagleUSA
....whatever presiding actually means in this case.

It means he's the judge. The Senate is the jury.

79 posted on 09/30/2019 5:35:16 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: central_va

Absolute truth, c_va.

How dare we elect someone THEY don’t want.


80 posted on 09/30/2019 5:37:46 AM PDT by combat_boots (TGod bless Israel and all who protect and defend her! Merry Christmas! In God We Trust! Hi)
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