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Schumer says Pelosi to deliver Trump impeachment article Monday, triggering trial amid standoff with McConnell
Fox News ^ | 01/22/2021 | Tyler Olson

Posted on 01/22/2021 9:00:49 AM PST by SeekAndFind

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said on Friday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is sending the article of impeachment against former President Trump to the Senate on Monday, paving the way for a trial.

The House of Representatives this month voted to impeach Trump for the second time in his presidency for "incitement of insurrection" after a mob of his supporters besieged the Capitol on Jan. 6 in a failed attempt to stop the certification of then-President-elect Joe Biden's electoral college win.

"I've spoken to Speaker Pelosi who informed me that the article will be delivered to the Senate on Monday," Schumer, D-N.Y., said on the Senate floor Friday.

Pelosi confirmed her plan in a separate statement.

"We are respectful of the Senate’s constitutional power over the trial and always attentive to the fairness of the process, noting that the former president will have had the same amount of time to prepare for trial as our Managers," Pelosi said. "Our Managers are ready to begin to make their case to 100 Senate jurors through the trial process."

Schumer has been discussing how to organize the Senate and special rules for the upcoming impeachment trial with Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.

No agreement has been reached on either front. If one is not on impeachment rules before Monday, then the standing Senate impeachment rules will go into effect, forcing the Senate to convene every day at 1 p.m., excluding Sundays, to consider the impeachment "until final judgment shall be rendered."

McConnell suggested a set of pre-trial procedures on Thursday that would delay the event by a few weeks, but the decision by Pelosi, D-Calif., instead sends the Senate potentially careening on a collision course with a full trial next week.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; US: California; US: Kentucky; US: New York
KEYWORDS: california; chuckschumer; impeachment; impeachment2; impeachtrumptrial; kentucky; mitchmcconnell; nancypelosi; nazipelosi; newyork; pelosi; schumer; senate
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To: SeekAndFind

In Soviet America, Communist Party delivers show trials to keep the idiot peoples at bay with circuses.

Working on stimulus money to deliver bread to said peoples?

No, they have no time for that.


81 posted on 01/23/2021 12:33:44 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: redgolum

[Serious question.

What is the goal?]

1) Keep their idiot voters occupied with a show trial.

2) To make sure no pro-America candidate runs for President, ever again.


82 posted on 01/23/2021 12:35:03 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: redgolum

[Serious question.

What is the goal?]

1) Keep their idiot voters occupied with a show trial.

2) To make sure no pro-America candidate runs for President, ever again.


83 posted on 01/23/2021 12:35:03 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Fiddlstix; P-Marlowe

Art 2, Sect 4 clearly indicates that Potus shall be removed from office after being impeached. That is not possible. Trump is not Potus.

Art 1 additionally says the Chief Justice presides when the Potus is being impeached. Since Trump isn’t the potus, then potus isn’t being impeached. Therefore, the CJ does not preside.

Who will?

If he does,is that an accidental admission that Trump is really the Potus?


84 posted on 01/23/2021 5:49:53 AM PST by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory. )
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To: xzins

If the Senate is going to try Trump, then until he is “removed from office” they need to remove Biden from the White House.


85 posted on 01/23/2021 5:57:41 AM PST by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping List )
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To: P-Marlowe

Who pastors Costa Mesa...Skip Heitzig???


86 posted on 01/23/2021 6:05:39 AM PST by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory. )
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To: xzins

I think it’s Brian Broderson. I don’t follow CCCM.

Right now the most prominent CC pastor in America is Jack Hibbs at CCCH.

Greg Laurie joined the Southen Baptist Convention. He’s no longer affiliated with CC.


87 posted on 01/23/2021 6:21:22 AM PST by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping List )
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To: P-Marlowe

Did something happen to them?


88 posted on 01/23/2021 6:23:14 AM PST by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory. )
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To: Jane Long

The only way to make it clear to the GOP is to create the Trump led Patriot Party and destroy the Republican Party. If Jim Jordan and a few others are truly patriots they will join and help build the national organization. If not, then they are all talk, as was their former colleague Trey Gowdy.


89 posted on 01/23/2021 6:33:31 AM PST by littleharbour ("You take on the intel community they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you" C. Schumer)
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To: richardtavor

In his remarks, Schumer said, “make no mistake, there will be a trial and when that trial ends senators will have to decide if they believe Donald John Trump incited the erection” — then corrected himself to say, “insurrection against the United States.”

https://www.thewrap.com/chuck-schumer-erection-freudian-slip-majority-leader/


90 posted on 01/23/2021 6:37:35 AM PST by Daffynition (*Mega Dittoes and Mega Prayers* & :))
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To: xzins

Brian Broderson apparently muscled his way to the top when Chuck Smith was in his last years. He has not carried the Chuck Smith torch and there is a movement to restore the teachings of Chuck Smith.

I think fame and fortune have gotten to Greg Laurie’s head. My wife once posted some constructive criticism of him, and got locked out of their Instagram account.

I go to a small local CC that still maintains the original CC distinctives.


91 posted on 01/23/2021 6:42:40 AM PST by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping List )
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To: SeekAndFind

The Left is hoping for a civil war so the can lock the country down forever. If there is war, the left wins, if we don’t the Left wins.


92 posted on 01/23/2021 6:44:54 AM PST by The Louiswu (Dylan is right once more...”The times, they are a changing”)
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To: P-Marlowe

I see so many cc doing sermon series rather than through the bible. I listened to Heitzig go verse by verse thru Luke 4 and thought he did a very good job...then he riffed into an illustration I had heard Chuck Smith use in the past.

That’s why I wondered if he had taken cccm.


93 posted on 01/23/2021 6:58:54 AM PST by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory. )
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To: Pilgrim's Progress

RE: She is being primaried . . . and that is about the only thing that scares a gutless politician.

First and most important question... how prevalent is mail-in voting in the primaries in Wyoming?

If they’re anything similar to Georgia then Liz Cheney has nothing to be scared of. Her re-election is assured.


94 posted on 01/23/2021 7:26:33 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: Deo volente

The goal is to prevent him from running again in 2024.

......

Bingo. They know we are behind him and other than occasional support no one else can stir the masses the way he can

One thing for sure the Clinton/Bush/ Obama ties have also been revealed

The Cabal is real and developed / grew under these admins.

Like Bush but his recent Clyburn statement and the family “
Adopting Billy Jeff “‘showed its all a game

Trump the only only one who “ served the people” and not himself


95 posted on 01/23/2021 7:39:15 AM PST by patriotspride (Third generation Vet. Never forget the true cost of freedom)
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To: All

One wonders if the combined effect of a Judicial Branch that refuses to hear a case on behalf of the President, combined with an Impeachment process for someone no longer in office, is in fact a Constitutionally proscribed Bill of Attainder focused on punishing the President. Congress acts knowing that the former President’s legal recourse has been, and will continue to be, forestalled by the Courts.

A single individual is being punished without a judicial proceeding by legislative fiat, for political purposes only, in an effort to deprive former President Trump of his right to hold office in the future, and to allow ancillary derogatory impacts by private individuals who will claim justification as a result of Congressional action, and to destroy him in his public life - tantamount to a public execution without the blood.

Article 1 Section 9 proscribed Bills of Attainder. The Courts have defined the term to include actions focused on a single individual subjected to a form of punishment without the normal judicial protections of due process by a non-political tribunal.

Since the Courts refuse to take up any case to properly hold a hearing on the actual evidence of wrongdoing, and since the largest politically charged body in the world proposed to prosecute Trump, there is no legal recourse for Trump to defend himself individually. Certainly, the impeachment trial cannot be viewed as a fair due process of law proceeding when the decision makers already harbor animosity to the target. Congress knows that the Court will politically wall of judicial recourse, as it has in the last few months.

Such is the effect of a Bill of Attainder.

If we do not stop this attack on our liberties now, it will only get worse. The key is to purge the judiciary, law enforcement, and the Department of Justice of the Corruption which protects the criminal enterprise now in control of Washington and many states. The corruption rots both parties from within and is not a sin of one or the other.

Alas, the only remedy is the people uniting stop corruption, and to force upon the government a system of fair and verifiable elections. We must take off the trappings of party, and focus on the trappings of American civil rights.


96 posted on 01/23/2021 7:49:20 AM PST by LachlanMinnesota
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To: Pilgrim's Progress

I guess we’ll see if any of them learned something from the results of Liz Cheney going against the will of the people. She is being primaried . . . and that is about the only thing that scares a gutless politician.

......

Good to hear. Would that be quicker than a recall petition?

Surprised to see McConnell use her “ vote of conscience “ wording in any discussion involving impeachment following the reaction to Cheney

A direct slap in the face to us millions who believe in The Donald


97 posted on 01/23/2021 7:50:56 AM PST by patriotspride (Third generation Vet. Never forget the true cost of freedom)
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To: redgolum

The goal is not to prevent Trump from running again. They already know they can steal an election. The goal is to keep him from coming back now. That’s why they are in such a rush.


98 posted on 01/23/2021 7:59:58 AM PST by philippa
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To: ohiogrammy

That is awful! I sent some. Is there a better way? I doubt if mail would even get to President Trump.


99 posted on 01/23/2021 3:46:39 PM PST by madison10
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To: philippa

They want him in prison.


100 posted on 01/23/2021 3:49:19 PM PST by madison10
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