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>> The Constitution says that the House impeaches and the Senate tries. It does NOT say that the House impeaches and then keeps it to themselves. I think the Republicans would be on good ground to go to the Supreme Court to demand that the House turn over the articles of impeachment to the Senate per the Constitution, or else the Supreme Court would invalidate the articles of impeachment as unconstitutional. If the Democrats refuse to submit the articles of impeachment to the Senate, the Supreme Court could nullify them and President Trump would go down in history as not having been impeached. If they do submit them to the Senate, the Senate would acquit, leaving Trump scarred but the Democrats blocked. <<

Good point, if they went to SCOTUS, they would have plenty of precedent on their side from the Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton impeachments (and probably all the lower offices impeached over the last 200 years, mostly federal judges). The House passing Articles of Impeachment has always resulted in the material being promptly delivered to the Senate to hold a trial, and the House appointing impeachment managers to present their case.

McConnell can announce they plan to use the same trial rules in place from the Clinton impeachment, which the RATs can't claim is "unfair" as the rules were agreed to 100-0 at the time of that impeachment.

If Pelosi and the House Dems want to break with 200 years of precedent, there should not only be a vote to dismiss the charges, but a vote to Censure Pelosi and Jerrold Nadler for reckless use of congressional powers.