Posted on 12/19/2019 8:40:51 AM PST by 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"...
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When the Constitution was written the only way to get the Articles to the Senate was to carry them over. Now, with television, everyone saw what the Articles are so there is no need to “carry them over”. Turtle should declare he has received them and proceed.
None of us expects that, but there is nothing that says it can't. James Clyburn said in a TV interview that it would be his preference that the articles never be sent to the Senate. We are in bizarro world now where nothing is certain.
I was one second behind you LOL.
I believe she’s so rattled she doesn’t know what to do or what she wants, she’s backed into a corner.
Wow, that that is going to get McConnell to the negotiating table.
Amen!
Kevin McCarthy on Fox just now NAILED Pelousy for holding up important votes, and DELAYING USMCA for a year and thus weakening Trump’s ability to negotiate a better treaty with China!
So she’s going to hold onto this until (she hopes) the Dems take the Senate?
McConnell told Pelosi that she and her partisan House thugs would not be allowed to paralyze the Senate at will.
I know the Democrite Media is trying to suppress this information, but Mitch spelled it out clearly.
The more they are allowed to make up their own rules, the more rules they will make up for their own benefit.
It has been the dems (Obama, Pelosi, et al) mission since before Obamacare to lob legal grenades and cause legal chaos, shredding the constitution and destroying our institutions, for their own personal, political, power gain.
Clearly there has not been an impeachment until the charges have been moved to the Senate.
I missed the whole thing. Was she able to keep her teeth in her head to the end?
I disagree...I think this is about losing the house and perhaps censure is the compromise to that dilemma.
All but one Dem voted to impeach. So, who’s gone rogue?
He’s a “rogue leader” because he doesn’t have Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Why is the whole government at the mercy of Ms Petty Pelosi?
What’s the remedy to shut her obstruction down?
“Strong in this one the hypocrisy is” Yoda, 2019
The Republicans and/or Trump should hold off approving anything including funding the government until the articles are delivered.
It is not too often that the Speaker of the House arranges a scenario that begs for her to be told to STFU.
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