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Pelosi should block impeachment trial until White House is forced to reveal all
CNN ^ | Updated 9:20 AM ET, Sat December 21, 2019 | Joseph J. Ellis

Posted on 12/21/2019 10:19:10 AM PST by conservative98

(CNN)Let's call it the Pelosi Pause. There are no written rules governing the timetable for delivery of the House decision impeaching Donald Trump to the Senate, only custom. But then there were no written rules governing the timetable for a Senate decision on Barack Obama's nomination of Merrick Garland, only custom. If Speaker Nancy Pelosi follows Senator Mitch McConnell's playbook, Donald Trump will never stand trial in the Senate.

Joseph Ellis Joseph Ellis From a Democratic perspective that outcome would be preferable to a show trial, where the conclusion is not just foreordained, but announced beforehand by the Majority Leader after consulting with White House counsel. It's perfect: a rigged trial of a President accused of plotting a rigged election. We can only assume that Senator McConnell will be winking at the camera when he takes the oath of impartiality, "so help me God." Pelosi need not wink, she only needs to wait. How long? Until November 2020, if necessary. McConnell claims that he has all the leverage because he has the votes in the Senate, and that, not the evidence described in the impeachment report, is all that counts. But it counts for nothing until the Senate receives the impeachment recommendation from the House. Dean: Pelosi has leverage over Senate impeachment trial

This is what Speaker Pelosi knows, and that could be why she is waiting

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


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To: conservative98

Until the current Congress closes then too late.


41 posted on 12/21/2019 10:40:55 AM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: conservative98

As long as the “indictment” is withheld and NOT presented to the “court”, it is moot. Butt, cnn..............


42 posted on 12/21/2019 10:41:44 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: conservative98

here’s a link to his FB page...let him have it: https://www.facebook.com/josephjellis/


43 posted on 12/21/2019 10:41:49 AM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: StAnDeliver

he does have facebook: https://www.facebook.com/josephjellis/


44 posted on 12/21/2019 10:42:17 AM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: conservative98

“Pelosi should block impeachment trial until White House is forced to reveal all”

CNN, The Crappy Nonsense Network is still just passing gas.


45 posted on 12/21/2019 10:44:20 AM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: conservative98

The House already indicted the President, in haste, without waiting for the documents they told the Court they needed

What do they think they can do? Indict him again?

This seems to nullify their complaint of “ obstruction” since they reached a verdict already


46 posted on 12/21/2019 10:44:28 AM PST by silverleaf (Age Takes a Toll: Please Have Exact Change)
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To: conservative98

Can we get a simple little football analogy here? The DemRats scored their touchdown and now they refuse to kick the ball off to the other team. What it is.


47 posted on 12/21/2019 10:45:22 AM PST by tflabo (Prince of Peace, Lion of Righteousness)
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To: conservative98

Get off my porch Satan. Halloween’s over and your costume sucks. Go scare somebody else’s house. Oh...wait...


48 posted on 12/21/2019 10:45:25 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: conservative98

Nope, McConnell sets the rules. All he needs to do is say to Pelosi, “you have until ‘X’ to produce your managers. No witnesses except on who Trump wants to defend himself, which you would not afford him to do. Don’t like it? Don’t care! I run the Senate, and adults are in charge here. Abide by our rules or piss off!”


49 posted on 12/21/2019 10:45:30 AM PST by Bommer (2020 - Vote all incumbent congressmen and senators out! VOTE THE BUMS OUT!!!)
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To: conservative98

Great Columnists CNN has.

Splendid CVs.

You have to be corrupt to work there.


50 posted on 12/21/2019 10:46:15 AM PST by Maris Crane
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To: conservative98

How will they know when *all* has been revealed?

Who are they to judge that?

Oh, let me guess. When it fits their narrative, THEN the Truth will finally have come out.

Anything that doesn’t fit their narrative will be deemed to be a lie.


51 posted on 12/21/2019 10:46:26 AM PST by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: conservative98

Yeah...’cause that’s leverage.


52 posted on 12/21/2019 10:47:43 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They are openly stating that they intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live.)
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To: conservative98

Perhaps we’ll have to detach her head to find out what’s in it. Does it screw on?


53 posted on 12/21/2019 10:48:56 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: conservative98

Good! We don’t care if the House ever sends them. Only makes them look bad.


54 posted on 12/21/2019 10:50:34 AM PST by tirednvirginia
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To: Bommer

Yep Bommer what Mitch should do. Thats what Pelosi wants too so she can incoherently with emotional rantings blame the Republicans as not being ‘fair and impartial’. Tt plays to her whacked out base to blame and smear the Repub Senate.


55 posted on 12/21/2019 10:50:38 AM PST by tflabo (Prince of Peace, Lion of Righteousness)
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To: conservative98

There you go. Typical leftist. Supreme liar who creates their own personal fantasy world and cannot step out of it. Therefore, they stick to CNN and telling themselves they are good people.

These people are mentally disturbed.


56 posted on 12/21/2019 10:50:46 AM PST by Obadiah (Kill the deep state or lose the Republic.)
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To: Sirius Lee

I’m glad all the real stupid people are on their side.


57 posted on 12/21/2019 10:51:22 AM PST by SpaceBar
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To: antidemoncrat
cnn-Clowns
58 posted on 12/21/2019 10:53:38 AM PST by timestax
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To: conservative98
But it counts for nothing until the Senate receives the impeachment recommendation from the House.

There is no impeachment unless and until the House sends the articles of impeachment to the Senate. If Nancy doesn't want to impeach Trump, so be it - good luck to her and her colleagues as her constituents realize there was never going to be any real impeachment.
59 posted on 12/21/2019 10:54:08 AM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: conservative98

LOL.
How exactly does she “ force” anything?


60 posted on 12/21/2019 10:56:03 AM PST by Kozak (DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
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