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Levin: Pelosi’s unilaterally sitting on the impeachment. This is another brazen unconstitutional act...
Mark Levin on Facebook ^ | 12/19/19 | Mark Levin

Posted on 12/19/2019 5:38:16 AM PST by conservative98

Nancy Pelosi was apparently advised by leftwing Harvard law professor Lawrence Tribe to delay sending the impeachment to the Senate. So she’s unilaterally sitting on the impeachment. This is another brazen unconstitutional act.

Here’s what Mitch McConnell and the Senate Republicans must do in response: The Senate has the sole power under the Constitution to adjudicate an impeachment. Therefore, Pelosi is attempting to obstruct the Senate’s power to act on its constitutional authority. McConnell should immediately put an end to this and declare the impeachment null and void as the speaker has failed to complete the impeachment process by timely sending it to the Senate for adjudication. McConnell has no less authority to unilaterally make such a decision than Pelosi does to withhold the administrative notification of an impeachment to the Senate either indefinitely or with conditions. Her effort to cripple the presidency and blackmail the Senate must be defeated.


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KEYWORDS: congress; couppeachment; enoughalready; impeachment; levin; marklevin; mcconnell; pelosi
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To: LS; holdonnow

To: conservative98
I guess this is why I’m not a big Levin fan: he always correctly assesses what the enemy is doing, but he never gets around to innovative legal RESPONSES.

18 posted on 12/19/2019, 8:55:44 AM by LS (”Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually” (Hendrix))
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21 posted on 12/19/2019 5:57:28 AM PST by conservative98
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Supreme Court will say this is a political question and a separation of powers issue and they have absolutely no constitutional authority to get involved.

Constitutionally correct. But Roberts might say it is a tax!

22 posted on 12/19/2019 5:57:31 AM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Are you sure? The issue of separation of powers and the constitutionality of "impeachment" for arbitrary and unconstitutional purposes might be one that the Supreme Court should address.

Certainly Justices Kavanaugh, Thomas, and Gorsuch have witnessed the weaponization of legal distortions for political purposes and might be willing to address this issue.

23 posted on 12/19/2019 5:57:46 AM PST by Savage Beast (The curse of high intelligence: Having to watch the morons try everything that obviously won't work.)
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To: pburgh01
time to stick it to the Dems

This depends on a huge presumption: that the new Republican House Speaker is inclined to do such things.

If the house were flipped, who would likely be Speaker? Some senior NeverTrumper whose "turn" it is for the gavel, or someone who will implement our wishes and PDJT's agenda?

24 posted on 12/19/2019 6:00:50 AM PST by grobdriver (BUILD KATE'S WALL!)
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To: conservative98

Best thing the Senate can do is have hearings on the Ukraine corruption. Publicize how Biden, Pelosi, Kerry, Schiff and others used the Ukraine as a prosecutor free corruption zone and laundered the money through their dumb children such as Hunter Biden and Paul Pelosi. It will demonstrate just how corrupt these lowlifes are, the basis of Trump’s desire to root out the corruption, and why at its core the impeachment fiasco was an attempt to hide this corruption. When this is over, it is more likely that Pelosi will lose her office in shame than Trump losing his. Sure there are some Republicans such as Romney who had their hand in the corruption and will try to prevent a real investigation.


25 posted on 12/19/2019 6:04:52 AM PST by allendale (.)
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To: HangnJudge

“ just let the Dems in the House sit in their own excrement”

Just like the folks do in SF.


26 posted on 12/19/2019 6:06:12 AM PST by gasport (The dung beetle should be the symbol of the Democrat Party)
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To: hal ogen

Nancy is bluffing. Her rationale about needing to know the arena before selecting managers is nonsensical.


27 posted on 12/19/2019 6:06:36 AM PST by Gahanna Bob
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To: conservative98

I’ve had enough of all of this. The Democrats are beyond evil.


28 posted on 12/19/2019 6:06:48 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: conservative98
I have been trying to research what holding this really means in the long term. Does anyone know if there is a expiration date on sending it to the Senate?

It's possible that the House is holding until after the 2020 election in hopes of picking up a few Senate seats in the election that would change the landscape. Doesn't appear to be going in that direction but we are a fickle electorate.

Another possibility is the House hopes to use the Articles as a hammer to pressure the President toward their will.

In either or both cases, it seems the House should be compelled to "put up or shut up" otherwise upsetting the co-equal balance as designed. The president should sue for performance making the argument.

29 posted on 12/19/2019 6:07:02 AM PST by Damifino (The true measure of a man is found in what he would do if he knew no one would ever find out.)
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To: All

As someone just posted.......Democraps have succeeded in making impeachment trivial

Just as Obama made the Nobel Prize irrelevant.


30 posted on 12/19/2019 6:07:25 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Dr. Wu

The very same dope who mentored the dumbass
rateared purple lipped dogeater


31 posted on 12/19/2019 6:07:53 AM PST by Phil DiBasquette
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To: conservative98

No more unconstitutional than the Kenyanesian Usurpation.


32 posted on 12/19/2019 6:07:55 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: conservative98

THESE ARE THE MODERATE DEMOCRATS!!

33 posted on 12/19/2019 6:07:59 AM PST by missnry (The truth will set you free ... and drive liberals crazy!)
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To: bert
Exactly right. McConnell will rightly say that he's not going to waste the Senate's time discussing rules if the House isn't going to send over the Articles of impeachment. Pelosi will look like an idiot going through the entire impeachment process, then doing nothing with it.

Dumb move on Pelosi's part.

34 posted on 12/19/2019 6:08:35 AM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: Savage Rider

The Constitution basically says upon passing the vote, the Senate handles from that point on. The head of the Senate would then control timing and events.

I think what Mitch will do is call for an immedate meeting to start the impeachment, with the Democrats saying he has to agree with things or there’s no articles passed over. He’ll say the articles don’t matter, and the Democrat Senators will leave the chamber.

At that point, he can call for an acquittal vote, with a 2/3’s vote....of the 56-odd people there, and merely needs 37 to conclude his impeachment episode. All done in less than 30 minutes.

Now, I admit....it will trigger massive hostility, but since you already have it....well, it won’t matter.


35 posted on 12/19/2019 6:10:14 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: Damifino

Impeachment would die with this Congress. They’d have to vote again after the new Congress is sitting.


36 posted on 12/19/2019 6:11:04 AM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: gasport

“ just let the Dems in the House sit in their own excrement”
Just like the folks do in SF.

Like putting an unruly child in the corner
Until they learn to behave


37 posted on 12/19/2019 6:11:11 AM PST by HangnJudge (Kipling was right about Humanity)
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To: Savage Beast

It takes 4 to take a case, we only have 3 conservatives, Alito, Gorsuch and Thomas.


38 posted on 12/19/2019 6:12:31 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: conservative98
Clinton was impeached Dec 19, the Senate was informed January 9.

Senate doesn't have any justification to dismiss, with prejudice, what it doesn't hold.

This is just Pelosi and lawfar eating up the news cycle with more nonsense. Also attmpting to taint the Senate trial, becuase they know the trial will also conclude in partisan fashion.

39 posted on 12/19/2019 6:12:41 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: IncPen

Bring on the witnesses.

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THAT is precisely what she and her fellow conspirators are afraid of. Testimony, evidence and facts will expose and destroy their fabricated and baseless case against the president.

Sunlight is the best disinfectant. We need an open trial.


40 posted on 12/19/2019 6:13:13 AM PST by Starboard
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