Posted on 01/10/2020 4:05:21 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
More than three weeks after the House passed articles of impeachment against President Trump, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has decided to start the process of appointing managers and sending the articles to the Senate for trial. In a letter to colleagues Friday, Pelosi did not say precisely when that will happen, but it appears it will be sometime next week.
The speaker got nothing in return for her decision to end the holdout. Back on Dec. 18, the night the House impeached the president, Pelosi said she would not send the articles until she received some assurance that the Senate trial would be "fair."
"We cannot name managers until we see the process on the Senate side," Pelosi said. "So far, we have not seen anything that looks fair to us, so, hopefully, it will be fair, and when we see what that is, we'll send our managers."
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell repeatedly told Pelosi that she would have no say in the structure of the Senate trial. "There will be no haggling with the House over Senate procedure," McConnell tweeted Wednesday. "We will not cede our authority to try this impeachment. The House Democrats' turn is over."
McConnell has said Republicans have enough votes to begin the Senate trial along the lines of the 1999 impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton. Under that plan, after both sides have presented their case and after the Senate has discussed the matter, lawmakers would then take up the question of whether or not to call witnesses.
Pelosi and Senate Democrats have demanded witnesses. McConnell and many other Republicans would prefer none, but there is a small group of GOP senators whose votes could be decisive who want to explore the possibility of calling witnesses. But that will happen within the context...
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First give the articles then there is a need for managers, isn’t that right?
And what does Nancy P have to do with the procedures of the Senate? Has she appointed herself empress there, too?
Some here have the reason for delay might be the scrounging up of managers.
Nobody wants the duty that will doom them to history as losers
Then they shouldn't have put the "D" beside their names.
Go Trump!
“Pelosi caves”
Original headline, “Pelosi Blinks”, was edited for accuracy:)
Pelosi hasn’t blinked in years...
NAnZI stepped on her tit this time.....
...now go make me a sandwich"
pelosi caves...
where no man dares to go...
+1.
She needs to e expelled from congress and arrested.
Must be Ginsberg is fading fast. On her deathbed?
She got the idea to delay the proceedings off a TV news appearance by Watergated White House Counsel John Dean, fer chrissakes. This tells the world that they absolutely have no plan, are winging it day by day hoping for a miracle, watching the “Age of Aquarius” world that the 1960’s built turn to sewage.
My poor popcorn popper is wheezing and giving off smoke.
“Pelosi caves”
She’s barricaded herself in one of her wine caves?
Now that's funny.
Laurence Tribe (Harvard Law School) wrote an op-ed recommending the course of action Pelosi adopted.
On TV : AOC, youngest Speaker in history addresses House. Live at 8pm ET.
Pelosi from her prison cell: "I'm praying for her."
Followed by a quick call "Guido, does Armado have that damn car bomb installed yet? What's taking him so long?"
Why blaspheme or attempt to cover your blasphemy?
>>they absolutely have no plan
Good observation.
” My poor popcorn popper is wheezing and giving off smoke. “
Maybe your popper is trying to give you a hint . . . perhaps to try smoking some of the popcorn
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