Pelosi Holds Back Impeachment Article as House Builds Case (here we go again - IMPEACHMENT HELD HOSTAGE - DAY 29)

NY Times ^ | 1/15/21 | Nicholas Fandos

[Libloather]

WASHINGTON - Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Friday that House impeachment managers were preparing to prosecute President Trump in the Senate, but she refused to offer a timeline for when they would move forward with a never-before-attempted trial of a former president.

At a news conference two days after the House impeached Mr. Trump in a bipartisan vote, Ms. Pelosi made clear that her first priority was ensuring the security of the Capitol and lawmakers before President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s inauguration on Wednesday.

But growing emotional at times as she recounted seeing the image of a rioter barging through the Capitol in a “Camp Auschwitz” sweatshirt, Ms. Pelosi vowed accountability would soon follow for Mr. Trump, whom the House charged with “incitement of insurrection” for his role in instigating a violent mob that stormed the building. She also pledged to pursue the perpetrators of the rampage as well as far-right lawmakers if they were found to have aided in the assault.

“One week ago, on Jan. 6, there was an act of insurrection perpetrated on the Capitol of the United States, incentivized by the president of the United States,” she said. “One week later, Wednesday to Wednesday, that president was impeached in a bipartisan way by the House of Representatives - so urgent was the matter. They are now working on taking this to trial.”

The speaker’s decision to delay sending the article was reminiscent of a similar maneuver a year ago, when she waited almost a month to press charges against Mr. Trump after the House voted to impeach him the first time for pressuring Ukraine to smear Mr. Biden. This time, though, Democrats in both chambers involved in the impeachment case said they expected the delay to be brief.

[dfwgator]

They're going to lose the House sooo bad in 2022, and when they do their Articles of Impeachment go up in smoke.

Then we'll impeach Biden, or whoever the Hell is President then.

[mrsmith]

Pelosi: “ Iwill forward the documents at the time best for us.”
Media: “ Yes mistress, whatever you say, so shall we say!”

[stylin19a]

2 different congresses.
The house members serve for 2 year term and 1/3 of the senate is up for election every two years.

The clinton impeachment went over into a new congress. I couldn’t find where the House re-filed\re-voted the articles of impeachment in the 106th congress.

The house did have to reappoint impeachment managers but contended that: “In Congress impeachment proceedings are not discontinued by a recess;”

https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/1999/01/06/house-section/article/H211-1