51 Votes
I’d still request a writ of Mandamus forcing the House to hand it over. Our Government is set up so that when a fight breaks out between two branches, the branch that allies with the third wins the battle.
Mitch knows. It’s more fun to let Nanzi twist in the wind though.
The same ruling indicates, without directly saying it, that the senate can simply ignore it.
Doesn’t Trump want the trial?
Mitch would care one way or the other. None of them except maybe Jim Jordan want Trump in office.
Dismiss forthwith, with (extreme) prejudice.
Or, perhaps more amusingly, “deem” it dismissed!!
Nancy could give the manager jobs to the four horsewomyn— that might kill two birds with one stone for her...
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If the house doesn’t deliver the articles then they didn’t finish the process by the rules they set for themselves...then Trump doesn’t need any sort of acquittal because he was never impeached.
2. A trial is now a good thing. Not a little good thing. It is a “chop the other party to pieces with chainsaws good thing.
Mitch implemented the impeachment process used with Clinton.
The Senate has assigned a prosecution team and a defense team. All this information that Trump has declassified and that came from other investigations is fair game.
With the American people watching and with the pundits and newsmen taken out of the picture all of that can where relevant be read into the record. Republicans control both sides. There will be nobody there to object.
Obama was spying on Trump in 2015.
That goes into the record.
The FBI was required to inform the candidate setting up his foreign policy team of people he should stay away from. All of this endless stuff now will come out unfiltered by the media as the trial is broadcast.
So I personally doubt that the articles of impeachment will be transmitted and Trump’s impeachment will turn out not to have happened at the end of the day.
The Senate can declare the impeachment invalid, then they can begin a separate trial of Spygate.
Pelosi wants the Senate to void the impeachment.
The article is nonsense. Impeachment and transmittal are two separate but necessary things.
People are missing that distinction, which is why so much of the analysis is nonsense.
Lin Wood was correct, an extraordinary writ is what is needed (most likely mandamus, but there are other possibilities).
The impeachment vote was recorded and verified. That is the critical factor to get into court.
“What the hell is he waiting for?”
Maybe buying some time to clean up the mess he and Elaine are in (cover tracks, get some interests out of their names, coach Chao’s parents in China, etc.) just in case this does go to trial. If it does, and the RATs call witnesses, there’s a lot of dirty laundry for everyone to be exposed.
Senate is out of session. That’s why nancy held the impeachment to begin with. She’ll send them over January 7th the day they return pretending she did something bold.
The longer this draws out, the worse it looks for the traitor party.
I only mention this because it's something I have learned while listening & reading about DJTs impeachment.
Is this an actual ruling by SCOTUS or some barely read blogger’s opinion being tossed around?
You do not acquit without a trial.
That would give the Democrats/media the opportunity to paint this as partisan refusal to look at the evidence.
The right thing is to thoughtfully look at what the Democrats created and then dismiss it as nonsense....with prejudice.
“A FRIVOLOUS impeachment vote is a SEDITIOUS CONSPIRACY”
The Senate NEEDS to open an investigation of the means by which such a vote in the Congress proceeded.
I expect that Mitt has at least one or more friends than Mitch wants him to have right now. As soon as enough of those friends get what they want out of Mitch, things could move on...
He’s letting Nancy and Chuck dig their holes deeper and fill them with black sewage...Trump has given him a thrill of a lifetime and he’s savoring it.