Posted on 01/09/2020 1:16:00 PM PST by yesthatjallen
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is backing a resolution to change the Senate’s rules to allow for lawmakers to dismiss articles of impeachment against President Trump before the House sends them over.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) announced on Thursday that McConnell has signed on as a co-sponsor to the resolution, which he introduced earlier this week.
Spokesmen for McConnell didn't immediately respond to a request for comment about his support.
Changing the rules would either require a two-thirds vote or for Republicans to deploy the "nuclear" option.
The resolution would give the House 25 days to send articles of impeachment over to the Senate. After that, a senator could offer a motion to dismiss "with prejudice for failure by the House of Representatives to prosecute such articles" with a simple majority vote, according to Hawley's proposal.
McConnell has repeatedly lashed out at Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) for delaying sending over the two articles of impeachment.
"This is what they have done: They have initiated one of the most grave and most unsettling processes in our Constitution and then refused to allow a resolution," he said on Thursday.
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Interesting
So making a new rule only takes 51?
Senate actions must humiliate Democraps.
Nothing short of a Democrat annihilation will do.
Americans must be made witness to:
<><> Democrats violent hatred for Trump
<><> Democrats raging hatred for an entire class of Americans
<><> impeachment as revenge (not justice)
<><> vengeful Democrats punishing Trump voters
<><> Democrats banking their future on the chaos of impeachment
<><> the outrageous Third World MO used to structure impeachment.
Every Senate action should show Americans and the world The True Impact of Piglosi Democrats’ Impeachment Con Game.
Roughly, yes. And there is a good argument that what is being made isn't even a rule, it's simply handing one particular case, and has no effect (other than being a precedent) on subsequent cases. IOW, the "rule" isn't entered as part of the standing rules of the senate, at all.
The 2/3rds threshold attaches "... on a measure or motion to amend the Senate rules."
The Turtle has grown a backbone? a turtle shell is pretty strong & hard LOL.
I was one of the few posters on FR who has never denigrated the Turtle here. Because he is better by orders of magnitude than Schumer would be as Majority Leader, or any other democrat senator for that matter.
Your poem is insanely funny...thank you!
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