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Pelosi stands by delay in sending impeachment articles to Senate, calls McConnell a ‘rogue leader’
Fox News ^ | December 19, 2019 | Ronn Blitzer

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: impeachment; managers; mcconnell; nazipelosi; pelosi; presidenttrump; presser; speakerpelosi; trump; ushouse
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To: jazusamo

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.


61 posted on 12/19/2019 8:54:31 AM PST by TStro (Better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6)
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To: timestax
DemoncRat projection !

democrat-Projection

62 posted on 12/19/2019 8:55:08 AM PST by timestax
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To: devane617
"It can’t go on forever. At some point this sham comes to an end. Otherwise she could hold off until the Senate is in Dim hands."

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.

63 posted on 12/19/2019 8:55:25 AM PST by Truth29
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To: dead

I was one second behind you LOL.


64 posted on 12/19/2019 8:55:51 AM PST by TStro (Better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6)
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To: Sacajaweau

I believe she’s so rattled she doesn’t know what to do or what she wants, she’s backed into a corner.


65 posted on 12/19/2019 8:56:26 AM PST by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: jazusamo
rogue leader

Wow, that that is going to get McConnell to the negotiating table.

66 posted on 12/19/2019 8:56:28 AM PST by Godzilla ( I just love the smell of COVFEFE in the morning . . . .)
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To: DoughtyOne

Amen!


67 posted on 12/19/2019 8:57:50 AM PST by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: Destroyer Sailor

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!


68 posted on 12/19/2019 8:58:19 AM PST by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement!)
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To: jazusamo

So she’s going to hold onto this until (she hopes) the Dems take the Senate?


69 posted on 12/19/2019 8:58:24 AM PST by al_c (Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
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To: rktman
He should sack up and tell nanzi to either send them or round file them. 5:00 p.m. today as a deadline.

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.

70 posted on 12/19/2019 8:58:51 AM PST by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: Truth29
We are in bizarro world now where nothing is certain.

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.

71 posted on 12/19/2019 8:58:56 AM PST by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Clearly there has not been an impeachment until the charges have been moved to the Senate.


72 posted on 12/19/2019 9:00:10 AM PST by spudville
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To: jazusamo

I missed the whole thing. Was she able to keep her teeth in her head to the end?


73 posted on 12/19/2019 9:00:17 AM PST by truthkeeper (All Trump Has Going for Him is the Votes)
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To: CatOwner

I disagree...I think this is about losing the house and perhaps censure is the compromise to that dilemma.


74 posted on 12/19/2019 9:01:19 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: jazusamo

All but one Dem voted to impeach. So, who’s gone rogue?


75 posted on 12/19/2019 9:01:56 AM PST by Chaguito
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To: jazusamo

He’s a “rogue leader” because he doesn’t have Trump Derangement Syndrome.


76 posted on 12/19/2019 9:03:05 AM PST by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: jazusamo

Why is the whole government at the mercy of Ms Petty Pelosi?
What’s the remedy to shut her obstruction down?


77 posted on 12/19/2019 9:03:19 AM PST by PLOM...NOT! (With guns, we are citizens. Without them, we are subjects.)
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To: jazusamo

“Strong in this one the hypocrisy is” Yoda, 2019


78 posted on 12/19/2019 9:03:28 AM PST by DaiHuy (May God save the country, for it is evident the people will not! Millard Fillmore)
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To: jazusamo

The Republicans and/or Trump should hold off approving anything including funding the government until the articles are delivered.


79 posted on 12/19/2019 9:04:21 AM PST by Captain Compassion (I'm just sayin')
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To: jazusamo

It is not too often that the Speaker of the House arranges a scenario that begs for her to be told to STFU.


80 posted on 12/19/2019 9:04:27 AM PST by odawg
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