Pelosi stands by delay in sending impeachment articles to Senate, calls McConnell a ‘rogue leader’

Fox News ^ | December 19, 2019 | Ronn Blitzer

[jazusamo]

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday defended her decision to hold off on sending impeachment articles to the Senate, calling Mitch McConnell a "rogue leader" in an unusual press conference where she repeatedly tried to shut down questions about the impeachment process.

Pelosi spoke to reporters after Democrats passed two articles of impeachment against President Trump in a Wednesday evening vote. She indicated the House would eventually send the articles over to the upper chamber, but insisted it is up to the Senate to determine how the process develops going forward.

“The next thing for us will be when we see the process that is set forth in the Senate, then we’ll know the number of managers that we may have to go forward, and who we would choose,” Pelosi said Thursday.

After an impeachment in the House, the articles are normally sent over to the upper chamber for an impeachment trial, but Pelosi signaled earlier that the House is waiting for the Senate to set out how Trump's trial will be conducted before they determine next steps, such as designating impeachment managers who will represent them. This prompted outrage from Republicans who worried she would simply refuse to transmit the articles, thus denying Trump the chance at acquittal.

Pelosi made clear Thursday that she is not prepared to name those managers yet "because we don't know the arena we are in." As she did Wednesday, Pelosi insisted House Democrats want to see a "fair process"...

[jazusamo]

It’s my understanding that impeachment by the House and the trial in the Senate is not a criminal prosecution but political.

If the President is found guilty and removed from office there is no further criminal action such as fines or imprisonment as a result of the action.

So I don’t know if the Sixth Amendment applies to impeachment.

[Bob434]

[[they are scared to death. On more supreme Court confirmation by Trump]]

Yes and no- they have declared that they will pack the courts if they ever get into power again and the court leans right when they do

[Georgia Girl 2]

Crazy as it sounds Nan may not be planning to ever send the articles of impeachment.

[Bob434]

oh didn’t realize that- thanks-

[fr_freak]

We now have the equivalent of a Third World government.

That's because we now have the equivalent of a third-world voting base, not just because of all of the illegal immigration (and waves of legal immigration primarily from third-world countries), but because even the native population has been dumbed down through relentless propaganda and a deliberately fact-free state-run education system K-12 and well into the university system.

And the commies that have infiltrated every level of society keep proposing to lower the voting age to 16 or less because they want an even dumber, more gullible voting population than we already have.

[Covenantor]

Nan was around during the WJC impeachment trial and she and her senior staff know or should remember the procedures. Should have had her House managers selected already...I suggest she send out the Squad with their fresh outlook on the process...true representatives of new Democrat party.

Popcorn any one?

[olesigh]

waiting for the NBC or CNN headline “Pelosi Wastes Thousands of Hours and Tens of Millions of Dollars on Faux Impeachment Process.”

[1Old Pro]

McConnell told Pelosi that she and her partisan House thugs would not be allowed to paralyze the Senate at will.

Just heard that clip on RUSH, I'm sure the media won't play it.

[Bob434]

[[They trapped in a lose lose situation and are too stupid to fold their cards before they do more damage to themselves.]]

The sick thing is they have promised to “Keep impeaching Him” if he gets reelected

[DoughtyOne]

LOL

Impeach!

[timestax]

Here is where to secure Palousie and jerk Shumer and Shifty Shifft,Swalmouth and other dark,evil Demoncrap traitors !

[Eleutheria5]

Calling this a Salem witch trial doesn’t go far enough. The witches are trying the normal people, and demanding that they prove their innocence of unspecified crimes. More like a Soviet show trial by communist witches.

[MNJohnnie]

Can’t do anything of the sort if they are a minority party after Nov 2020. Dems are only dangerous in the Majority. We can fix that Nov 2020

[Bob434]

[[“If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?”]]

A Better question is “If a husband is alone in the woods and says something, is he still wrong?”

[SkyDancer]

And when we finally circle the drain because of them and wind up like Somalia schadenfreude won’t really feel good.

[Bob434]

[[for 3 years the dems have wanted to impeach...3 years..]]

Mitch said they have tried 7 times to impeach him- the first time, just 6 months after he was inaugurated, because he was ‘impolite to the press’=- Yes seriously- they wanted to impeach him over that- claiming he was a danger to the country for that- claiming he was unstable, unhinged, mentally unfit to lead

They wanted to impeach him for ‘being mean to professional athletes-

One time the wanted to impeach him because he reversed obama’s transgender rule for the military so that transgenders would no longer get transition surgery paid for by the government

On the very fist day of his term, the wapo declared that impeachment had begun

The left have declared war against the American voter- no longer do the left work for the people- they work to undermine the people’s vote- to remove any president, republican, that the left doesn’t like- against the will of the people-

[timestax]

[Himyar]

My biggest fear is they will try to kill him and think they can get away with it. Trump and Pence should never be together in public. Another possibility is Virginia. Perhaps the reaction to possible gun grabbing has finally hit them. Strange times.

[LoveMyFreedom]

Here is a thought. Do you think the RATS want to hold and then release when Durham report is released in the spring?

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

After they get more desperate, I expect more surprises from dems. Will they file lawsuits in fed court? Or at least present some legal motion to Roberts?