Posted on 01/08/2020 4:25:36 AM PST by EyesOfTX
The problem is that hag won’t release the impeachment papers until next summer.
She doesn’t have too. If she stalls long enough the Senate can just go ahead and vote.
I would start the trial at the end of January and keep it going until just after Super Tuesday. LOL!
Nope, trial won’t last no more than a few weeks at most. Just enough time to show what a sham it is and then dismissed.
+100. Exactly this is not going to be a long drawn out process. Talked to a Cap Hill staffer yesterday and that is what I was told by him. This case is going to get tossed and everyone knows it.
Starting to look like the deal that was made is the Deep Staters get to whack an Iranian General and Trump gets over on Impeachment.
Drag it out until November reading the DC phone book into the record. Teach the Rats to screw around with “procedures”.
This was their plan the whole time. They know the Senate won’t convict. Keep the impeachment narrative out there and pound away every day.
So mittens is still a hold-out ? What a douche.....
Not for Phase A....voting on the rules.
Pelosi should pull the articles and go back to square one. It’s her only play if the rats really want to impeach Trump. By doing that, Schiff and Nads can call on new witnesses.
I dont get why the 4-5 Senators running for President get to vote on impeaching their political rival
Esp when this is all supposedly about Trump misusing his power to go after a political rival
It’s kind of surreal. It is always OUR LEADERSHIP where the idiots reside, and the Democrats outsmart us. But, in the Senate, Scheumer is about the dumbest leader that I’ve ever seen in DC.
Even Pelosi I better understand - she simply had no choice but to bring up impeachment if she wanted to keep her job...her caucus had the votes to oust her.
Ok, I get why he’s called the Turtle, but where does Cocaine Mitch come from?
Graham has said that he’s ready to vote on a 25 day countdown to a Senate vote, if the papers aren’t delivered (and that would be to dismiss with prejudice). It should be more like 14 days, but it does light a fire under the Dems.
By the way, other reports have ALL Senate Republicans now on board with McConnell, including our favorite 3 RINOs.
...just something to think about when you see trolls here claiming that there is no difference between the parties.
It stinks. But, there is no defined recusal process for Senators in impeachment. Also, as they say, "impeachment is a political process," and politics always comes with conflicts.
And interesting standoff; The Senate will vote on the rules once they have a valid impeachment before them.
And Pelosi says she won’t send the impeachment until they have voted on the rules and she approves of them.
So, until Pelosi caves, there will be no impeachment trial. The senate has no particular interest in it anyway.
Meanwhile, on another front, a group of republican senators are trying to establish a way to dismiss the impeachment without it ever being submitted, by passing a rule that says essentially that the house only has a certain number of days to send over impeachment articles.
The only reason we don’t have such a rule now is, up to this point, nobody could imagine a speaker of the house would ever reverse the will of the house and refuse to send to the senate something that had been duly passed by the house.
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