Posted on 01/10/2020 11:22:23 AM PST by SeekAndFind
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Friday that she will take steps next week to send impeachment articles to the Senate, after delaying the process since last month in a bid to extract favorable terms for a trial.
“I have asked Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler to be prepared to bring to the Floor next week a resolution to appoint managers and transmit articles of impeachment to the Senate. I will be consulting with you at our Tuesday House Democratic Caucus meeting on how we proceed further,” Pelosi, D-Calif., wrote in a letter to colleagues.
The decision to release the articles came as fellow Democrats in recent days had started to voice frustration and impatience with the speaker's approach. They stressed the urgency with which impeachment was treated at the end of 2019 and questioned why the House would then delay a trial by using articles as leverage.
Asked about Pelosi's decision to move forward on Friday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said: “About time.”
Pelosi nevertheless defended her approach in the memo, stressing important new information on the Ukraine controversy at the heart of impeachment that emerged during the interim.
“I am very proud of the courage and patriotism exhibited by our House Democratic Caucus as we support and defend the Constitution,” she wrote. She continued to press the Senate, as she has for weeks, to conduct a "fair trial" with witnesses and documents.
“In an impeachment trial, every Senator takes an oath to ‘do impartial justice according to the Constitution and laws.’ Every Senator now faces a choice: to be loyal to the President or to the Constitution,” she wrote. “No one is above the law, not even the President.”
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Like with a bowel movement?
This is the long awaited move forward...apparently. I wonder what next week holds?
Geriatric Nancy is planning a movement next week, got it
As a general rule, Senators make lousy presidents, so it would not only be a political payback to the nutty House dems, but a good thing for humanity as well, not to mention the positives for the US itself.
Nancy takes a knee.
I’ll believe it when I see it.
Yeah, well, Creepy Joe was a senator before he was VP...
She’ll feel better if she just hurries up and craps that turd out.
I forgot we even had a faux impeachment. At this point I think it’s best for the Senate to dispense with this in 3 days or less. It’s a pointless exercise.
Because enclosing a .pdf file in an email is extremely complicated /s
Since five Senators are running for President shouldn’t they be excluded do to bias?
They can sh*t bricks. What else is new? I don’t care whether they send it over or not.
She’s moving to meet the 30 day Speedy Trial Act deadline for filing an Indictment which is what the Constitution calls the Impeachment.
And you bet they dread PDJT’s right to face his accusers. He retains ALL his Constitutional rights.
There is a story on CNN that has the following:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/10/politics/nancy-pelosi-impeachment-vote-friday/index.html
“Pelosi wrote in a letter to her caucus. “I will be consulting with you at our Tuesday House Democratic Caucus meeting on how we proceed further.””
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I thought this was/is not a political pursuit. If it’s not the why bring it up to the D Caucus in a closed door session?
That is one horrible and evil woman.
Trying to figure out to save face. The turd impeachment has turned into a humiliating rout for the Democrats.
They should, especially since one of the articles deals with PDJT supposedly trying to take out a rival. But you know how the RATs project. And strangely enough, since Schitt introduced the charge, they would be Impeachable using their precedent.
The “meeting” is on Tuesday due to the affects of a Monday hangover derived from this weekend’s festivities.
And fix me a sammich, Nancy!
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
What title doesn’t say is that House will transmit impeachment articles next week.
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