This was her way of "closely watching" the events happening
Posted on 01/09/2020 9:08:44 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Thursday that she will send the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump to the Senate "when I'm ready," rebuffing calls from top Democrats to submit them.
“No, I’m not holding them indefinitely," Pelosi told reporters during a press conference at the Capitol. "I will turn them over when I’m ready, and that will probably be soon.”
Some Democrats in the House and Senate have joined Republicans in recent days in saying it's time for Pelosi to send the articles to the Senate.
After initially saying in an interview Thursday morning that he thought Pelosi should submit the articles, Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., backtracked, tweeting that he "misspoke."
Pelosi has withheld the articles since her chamber adopted them last month, saying she will not transmit them to the Senate until the trial process is explicitly laid out. But she has suggested she could submit them soon.
"Nonetheless, at some point, we would hope that we would see from them what the terms of engagement will be," Pelosi told reporters Thursday. "We are ready, we are proud of our defense of the Constitution of the United States."
In a letter to colleagues Tuesday, Pelosi said it was important that McConnell "immediately publish this resolution, so that, as I have said before, we can see the arena in which we will be participating, appoint managers and transmit the articles to the Senate."
No trial can begin until the articles are sent.
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I’m having a winning overdose.
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LOL!!!!
“That would undoubtedly be the headline if a Republican was pulling this stunt.”
Exactly.
The DNC Media are enemies of the Republic.
It is past tome to refresh the tree of liberty. Our Republic is broken and we are now at least in part governed by our enemies.
She probably wants them to be a memorial to RBG.
She’ll probably turn them over at 11:59PM the day of that deadline.
Adam Smith got “the look”.
Dismiss this crap now.
McConnell can allow her to play this stupid game as long as he deems it politically advantageous. Then, at some point, he will have to announce a tentative date about two month hence and say if she doesn’t deliver the articles at least 30 days before that date, then he would have to reschedule at an indefinite time in the future. Or entertain a motion to dismiss all charges.
Not only is this a clear abuse of power, it is also contrary to their claims of ‘urgency’.
This is a fake impeachment that has totally backfired on the Dems.
All those Democratic Senators trying to run for POTUS must be getting nervous if the trial starts later this month. IA is on Feb 3 and NH is Feb 11. These Senators stuck in DC while Biden and Alfred E. Newman have the campaign trail all to themselves.
That was a proposed rule change. It hasn't been enacted.
Hubris.
Her own party will bring her to heel.
This was her way of "closely watching" the events happening
I think that she hasn’t turned over the articles because she got drunk and left them in the back of a cab.
Keep digging that hole deeper, PelosiIdiot, please.
Lawfare talked Nancy out on this limb believing Mitch wouldn’t have 51 votes. Now Mitch is between her and the tree sawing away.
If you’re going to play the leverage game, you better have it before play begins.
I’ve been thinking that she might order the Sergeant-At-Arms to announce Trump’s arrival for the STOU “Madam Speaker, the impeached President of the United States”, at which point Trump turns on his heel and walks out.
Remember when she did her exaggerated claps in his face at the last one?
What if they threw an impeachment and nobody came?
Nan has put herself into a s&^t jackpot and doesn’t know how to get out
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