What if the House doesn’t send the impeachment articles to the Senate? Idea championed by Harvard Law’s Laurence Tribe garners attention

Boston Globe ^ | 12/19/2019 | Mike DeBonis

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Here is the Democratic Party blindly following Pelousy and shifty SchiffHead down the hole!

[maxwellsmart_agent]

Does not anybody else see what the witch is doing? She is holding onto the articles of impeachment as long as she can to keep implicating President Donald Trump in some sort of crime. She knows that releasing the articles of impeachment would be an embarassment to the democrats. She does not intend to do that. She will hold out as long as we will let her. The time has come to close in on her. Let us expose her for what she is.

[timestax]

Pelousy and the Demoncratic Party are living in their own bizarro world !

[MarMema]

I knew it. Thanks for sharing.

[MarMema]

In ESP Doug Collins great speech he said the house hadn’t followed rules for the last year.

[HotHunt]

".... If McConnell goes for a trial that will end me with any hopes for the Republican Senators and most of the Party...."

For what's worth, Trump has said he wants a trial. He wants vindication. He wants to prove he didn't do what the democRATS in the House say he did.

McConnell has already publicly confirmed within the last week that he is not acceding to any of Schumer's demands and is working in close concert with Trump's WH lawyers in structuring a trial.

He went so far as to declare that he is a partisan in this process. He is partisan for the Republican side.

And in his speech this morning on the Senate Floor, he was not favorable to any of the democRATS demands.

As a matter of fact, he was highly critical of their weak, abbreviated process in the House and had nothing good to say about it.

[HotHunt]

That's pretty much what McConnell's assessment was.

But he also said that he wouldn't allow the House to "roll" the Senate.

[HotHunt]

Trump just tweeted this at 7:16 PM this evening:

So after the Democrats gave me no Due Process in the House, no lawyers, no witnesses, no nothing, they now want to tell the Senate how to run their trial. Actually, they have zero proof of anything, they will never even show up. They want out. I want an immediate trial!

[norwaypinesavage]

The US Constitution provides that “all citizens are innocent until proven guilty”. If the Senate holds an impeachment trial, it can only determine that the president is “not guilty”. If they do not hold a trial, they can declare that he is INNOCENT. The Senate can simply vote on impeachment rules that require the House to turn over the charges and if they do not turn over the charges, he shall be declared INNOCENT.