Posted on 01/19/2020 12:13:02 PM PST by bitt
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is as of now including in the U.S. Senate impeachment trial rules a “kill switch” that effectively allows for the president’s legal team to seek an immediate verdict or dismissal of the case should Democrats engage in any shenanigans like they did in the House process.
The revelation comes after the House finally late last week formally sent the Articles of Impeachment it adopted before Christmas—after holding them for more than a month without transmission—to the U.S. Senate, thereby triggering the start of a Senate trial. The Senate will formally commence its trial procedures in votes this coming week, and while some Republicans want to outright dismiss the charges altogether from the outset, others believe a trial should take place.
In so finally transmitting the Articles of Impeachment to the Senate, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi also named impeachment case managers—the Democrats who will present and manage the House’s case to the Senate—last week. They include House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY). Both Schiff and Nadler were widely panned for the highly unfair process they ran in the House of Representatives, and many Senate Republicans do not trust them to refrain from playing games that seek to make the Senate trial unfair to the president as the highly partisan process in the House ended up.
Republicans on the House side, who were essentially powerless to stop the Democrats’ shenanigans since they are in the minority in the lower chamber, are warning Senate Republicans to be on the lookout for Schiff’s gamesmanship and that from his ilk.
“It’s incumbent upon the Senate to preserve the right of the President’s legal team to ask for a verdict or move to dismiss this sham impeachment anytime they..
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“killswitch” will be thrown only if any Dem pulls a ruthless, dishonest, crooked stunt for their own political gain.
Dems: OMG. That means we’re finished.
A fine theory, if Mitch had a bulletproof majority that he could count on. But,we are blessed with Murkowsky, Collins, Lee, and Romney instead...
A “kill switch” or a flush handle. Either one is fine with me.
lol
Good. As soon as one lying Democrat opens his mouth to make a false charge; the presidents legal team should make a motion to dismiss with prejudice.
All in favor? AYES. The Ayes have it. Case Dismissed.
Agreed.
Have Senate members debate the House findings then vote. Set two days for the debate then vote on the third day. No witnesses.
It will be a circus if witnesses are allowed. The House had its chance to have witnesses and blocked many.
Heh. I like that use of the term: KILL SWITCH. Especially when used in conjunction with DemocRATs.
Flip that sucker!
Trump’s legal team should be given access to ALL of the transcripts from Schiff’s closed-door hearings last fall. Failure to turn them over should be grounds for this “kill switch” to be activated.
No witnesses. None are needed. After all, the Demonicrats in the House said they proved with incontrovertible evidence Trump’s guilt. So, where is the need?
The point of the Pelosifer ‘Peachment Pogrom’ is not to sully the president AS BEING IMPEACHED FOREVER. These Lefty Lap Leapers are actually targeting Senators like Gardner and others so they can take a few vulnerable Senate Seats in 2020.
And this is the only way the Looney Left has even a smidgen of hope, to get these RINOs like Gardner to turn in support of more witnesses, and other pro Dem motions during the “Peachment Pecker Plink” so that RINO Republicans in their respective constituencies will later refuse in November to turn out and refuse their vote for them in disgust .
Mitch McConnell has informed his caucus of this fact and now both RINOS and GOP patriots are ready to dispose of this vapid ,unconstitutional , come Bill of Attainder impeachment
folly ASAP.
Shiff et. al. will be going straight into a buzz saw....on national TV. They each will be lucky to have even a shred of their respective asses after its over.
The GOP/Trump trap on the Left is about to be sprung. The Bidens and Soros may not survive it. SO MUCH WINNING !
We have Mormuns and Morons.
Why don't Repubs threaten errant members with no money or support for re-election if they don't toe the Repub line? Not only that, threaten them with embarrassing revaluations, true or not (the media don't care)...
That would be the dims Hoist on their own Petard.
The first shenanigan was swearing the other day they’d be impartial.
...we at the cusp of history>>>>>>>>>>>>>
I hear millions of corn poppers going to work on stoves across America as you speak, getting ready for the big show.
Its a GOP USS Missouri broadside against what is left of the USS Obama garbage scow.
There will be nothing left but flotsam and jetsam, and the occasional set of gold embossed memorial Pelosi dentures.
Pelosi is through as Speaker. And Hunter and Joe Biden, along with Soros may be under indictment after this is over.
It has been opined that this is the true goal of the Impeachment and keep control of the House and take the Senate. Always playing the long game. And unfortunately the Republicans can't even envision a long game much less get ruthless enough to bring it about.
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