The source document is all of the senate procedure, and runs about 1500 pages. It's a good reference, to be sure, but I thought having just the impeachment Trial part would be handy these days.
I know that the /pre/ formatting is awkward on many browsers. I'm lazy. If somebody wants to convert to more portable, html, have at it.
Can Mitch just send it back to Nancy with a note to the effect, “Next time admit the dog ate your homework.”?
For instance, the Hoise made up, out of whole cloth, the concept of "Obstruction of the House" when subpoenas were ignored. Under the separation of powers, the House should have sought relief from the Judiciary, but instead are making up the charge of Obstruction of the House. If the court had ordered the President to respond to the subpoena, and he did not do so, then perhaps the claim might stick.
So how does one plead "not guilty" to a scheme crafted by the Democrats where the legal construct is so flawed that it is nonsensical?
But, what if the Senate wants to see the Articles of Impeachment before writing the procedures and rules that Nancy so desperately wants to see? Sounds like a classic stand-off.
Nancy is therefore guilty of "Obstruction of Senate" which is a crime I just made up out of whole cloth just like the 2nd Article of Impeachment.
I tried to read and understand. I did not see any of the words allowing the dismissal of the House articles in what would be a summary judgement.
Is there a section of the 1500 pages speaking to outright dismissal?
I now understand why there is so much out there about how the Senate will handle the matter. The rules are voluminous
I see that is not quite true.
RULES OF PROCEDURE AND PRACTICE IN THE SENATE WHEN SITTING ON IMPEACH- MENT TRIALS[Revised pursuant to S. Res. 479, 99-2, Aug. 16, 1986]
I. Whensoever the Senate shall receive notice from the House of Representatives that managers are appointed on their part to conduct an impeachment against any person and are directed to carry articles of impeachment to the Senate, the Secretary of the Senate shall immediately in- form the House of Representatives that the Senate is ready to receive the managers for the purpose of exhibiting such articles of impeachment, agreeably to such notice.
II. When the managers of an impeachment shall be intro- duced at the bar of the Senate and shall signify that they are ready to exhibit articles of impeachment against any person, the Presiding Officer of the Senate shall direct the Sergeant at Arms to make proclamation, who shall, after making proclamation, repeat the following words, viz: ``All persons are commanded to keep silence, on pain of imprisonment, while the House of Representatives is exhibiting to the Senate of the United States articles of impeachment against ------ ------''; after which the articles shall be exhibited, and then the Presiding Officer of the Senate shall inform the managers that the Senate will take proper order on the subject of the impeachment, of which due notice shall be given to the House of Representatives.
III. Upon such articles being presented to the Senate, the Senate shall, at 1 o'clock afternoon of the day (Sunday excepted) following such presentation, or sooner if ordered by the Senate, proceed to the consideration of such articles and shall continue in session from day to day (Sundays excepted) after the trial shall commence (unless otherwise ordered by the Senate) until final judgment shall be rendered, and so much longer as may, in its judgment, be needful. Before proceeding to the consideration of the articles of impeachment, the Presiding Officer shall administer the oath hereinafter provided to the members of the Senate then present and to the other members of the Senate as they shall appear, whose duty it shall be to take the same.