My prediction is that McConnell sets a deadline for transmission of the articles, and if they’re not transmitted, then they are dismissed with prejudice by the Senate without a trial for lack of prosecution.
McConnell can just say that the House has failed to impeach (bring any charges) and the Senate will not consider the ones Pelosy refused to file
if the House wishes to bring any charges they have to do it correctly starting over
which she will do, of course, but so what?
Dimocrats are all about feelings and perception so they are so far content that they IMPEACHED President Trump and that’s all they need to do as they likely think they have tarnished his reputation beyond repair. And with this they believe they can deny him any more SC picks thus ending abortion in America and the reshaping of the federal judiciary.
Yes, good quotes from BBC, and not in fine print or network voice *
I’m going to be bold and ask to what degree did the following cooperate with this attempt at forcing Trump out of office:
soros. The “Pope.” bammy. Wishing there were a way to find out.
He is posturing, which makes sense. There will not be a trial in the Senate.
He Has That RIGHT.
Senate should announce dismissal. Durham to prosecute the bad actors as a separate process from the senate impeachment trial.
I think McConnell should simply ignore every request for negotiating. Let Pelosi hold it out until the end of the 116th Congress, at the point the impeachment resolution will expire, and it will be like it never happened.
He double dared them and Pelosi is standing in front of the frozen Pole in the Schoolyard thinking it over.
Trump is constitutionally entitled to a speedy trial.
Pelosi want impeachment out there, in limbo, in case the Dems win control of the Senate in 2020.
I would just “deem” the articles as having been transmitted, by virtue of having been published in the Congressional Record, and start the trial.
Let her scream. Let her take it to the Supreme Court.
I don’t think Trump should tempt fate here with all those Never Trumper GOP globalists in the Senate.
nancy’s motivation for refusing to transmit the articles of impeachment to the Senate are incomprehensible to me because i don’t understand what she thinks she is trying to accomplish ...
she has to know that the Senate fiercely guards its power prerogatives against all comers and always has throughout U.S. history ... in fact, the Senate guards its own power first and foremost regardless of any other consideration ... so, there’s simply no way in hell that the Senate is going to let the House dictate in any way whatsoever how the Senate conducts its business on anything, much less on something as politically explosive as an impeachment ...
so then what? she knows the GOP Senate won’t budge no matter what fairy-tale bad publicity for the GOP Senate she might think will occur, and therefore she has to know that she’s going to wind up with only two choices: cave in and eventually transmit the articles of impeachment to the GOP Senate without them bowing to a single demand, or simply never transmitting them at all ... however, either action totally exposes the whole impeachment charade as nothing more than cheap political sour grapes (rather than a “crisis of clear and present danger”), even for anyone deluded enough to think that the House impeachment charade was a legitimate and fair process ...
which finally brings me back to my original question: what in the hell good does Nancy think she is doing for the Democrat Party by withholding these articles?