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BREAKING: McConnell Rejects Emergency Session On Impeachment, All But Killing Push To Oust Trump
The Daily Wire ^ | 1/13/2021 | Tim Pearce

Posted on 01/13/2021 1:45:28 PM PST by The Pack Knight

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has rejected a plan to reconvene the Senate in an emergency session to hold trial over an impeachment article against President Trump in the House.

McConnell press secretary Doug Andres confirmed a report that the Kentucky Republican would not sanction such a move on Wednesday.

Without the emergency session, the Senate is due back in session on Jan. 19., so McConnell’s decision all but kills a Democrat-led effort to oust Trump from office before his term is up and President-elect Joe Biden is sworn in on Jan. 20. A trial over the impeachment article is unlikely to conclude within such a short time.

Democrats have proposed holding the trial over Trump’s impeachment well-into Biden’s presidency. Michael Luttig, a former judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, slammed the idea on Tuesday, asserting that impeaching and removing a president after he left office is “unconstitutional.”

“It appears that even if the House of Representatives impeaches President Trump this week, the Senate trial on that impeachment will not begin until after Trump has left office and President-Elect Biden has become president on Jan. 20,” Luttig wrote in The Washington Post. “That Senate trial would be unconstitutional.”

Luttig continued:

Once Trump’s term ends on Jan. 20, Congress loses its constitutional authority to continue impeachment proceedings against him — even if the House has already approved articles of impeachment.

Therefore, if the House of Representatives were to impeach the president before he leaves office, the Senate could not thereafter convict the former president and disqualify him under the Constitution from future public office.

The reason for this is found in the Constitution itself. Trump would no longer be incumbent in the Office of the President at the time of the delayed Senate proceeding and would no longer be subject to “impeachment conviction” by the Senate, under the Constitution’s Impeachment Clauses. Which is to say that the Senate’s only power under the Constitution is to convict — or not — an incumbent president.

On Monday, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), a moderate, criticized the ongoing impeachment push and noted that any impeachment article passed in the House will likely not have enough support in the Senate.

“I think, my arithmetic, that means we have 19 Republicans. I don’t see that. And I think the House should know that also. We have been trying to send that message over. They know the votes aren’t there. You would think that they would do that,” Manchin said on Monday.

“I think this is so ill-advised for Joe Biden to be coming in, trying to heal the country, trying to be the president of all the people, when we’re going to be so divided and fighting again. Let the judicial system do its job,” he added. “And then, we’re a country of the rule of law. That’s the bedrock of who we are. Let that take its place. Let the investigations go on. Let the evidence come forth, and then we will go forward from there. There’s no rush to do this impeachment now. We can do it later if they think it’s necessary.”


TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: donaldtrump; impeachment; mcconnell; mitchmcconnell; senate; trump
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To: dfwgator

Nah, there are probably enough R’s, outgoing and otherwise, to convict. This way places any sort of conviction after Jan 20th when the Dem Senate majority can do as they wish.


41 posted on 01/13/2021 1:56:54 PM PST by Textide (Lord, grant that I may always be right, for thou knowest I am hard to turn. ~ Scotch-Irish prayer)
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To: lodi90

Justice Roberts will do whatever Barack Obama tells him to do.


42 posted on 01/13/2021 1:56:55 PM PST by Bratch
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To: The Pack Knight

He doesn’t want Dershowitz to ask why the police requests for back up were ignored.


43 posted on 01/13/2021 1:56:55 PM PST by Widget Jr
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To: crusty old prospector

He is also is trying to save his dim buddies.


44 posted on 01/13/2021 1:57:04 PM PST by showme_the_Glory (No more rhyming, and I mean it.........)
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To: The Pack Knight

Biden isn’t trying to “heal the nation.” He plans to smash it.

That scum says he wants the senate to spend half its days on his stuff and the other half on impeaching and disqualifying his election opponent.

Biden is a pure race baiting pos.


45 posted on 01/13/2021 1:57:05 PM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: The Pack Knight

So “moderate” Manchin says they can impeach later “if necessary “? How moderate of him.


46 posted on 01/13/2021 1:57:09 PM PST by mrsmel (I won’t be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

I agree. Never took a dime of pay or a vacation in 4 years. You think Melania wilk still be married to him. She wouldn’t go for it either.


47 posted on 01/13/2021 1:57:10 PM PST by gcparent (Justice Amy Coney Barrett)
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To: crusty old prospector

Or maybe he knew this was all silly nonsense to begin with.


48 posted on 01/13/2021 1:57:10 PM PST by Valin
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To: BiglyCommentary

Turtle putting out the statement that he was undecided on how he would vote if it came before the Senate and would let the law dictate, was his way of signaling he was distanced from Trump, but will not be the Jim Jones of the Republican party, knowing the law is entirely on Trumps side and so would vote no ultimately.


49 posted on 01/13/2021 1:57:37 PM PST by BiglyCommentary
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To: gcparent

Because after a few years of what’s coming, Trump will start to look real good.


50 posted on 01/13/2021 1:58:03 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: PGR88

Absolutely. McConnell is smart. If he was MAGA instead of Swamp, Trump could have accomplished great things.

OTOH, If McConnell was MAGA, he would never have been voted by Repub Senators as Majority Leader.

OTOH, If McConnell was MAGA, he would have been President himself a long time ago, and we would never have had President Trump.

McConnell = Wasted talent. Truly.


51 posted on 01/13/2021 1:58:34 PM PST by Reverend Wright (Biden is like Robert Mueller: a senile frontman for radical left interests)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel

Primary them with good America First candidates of every race and gender in 2022.


52 posted on 01/13/2021 1:58:56 PM PST by cowboyusa (America Cowboy up!)
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To: gcparent

Dont agree with you on that.

I think Trump is going to stay involved and try to keep these corrupt scum bags from continuing the destruction of the country. He or his son will run in 2024.


53 posted on 01/13/2021 1:59:04 PM PST by Jonny7797
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To: JME_FAN

Yeah why don’t they wait until late 2023 for the Republicans to disqualify their primary opponent, and Biden to disqualify his chief challenger.

Quite a system they have there.


54 posted on 01/13/2021 1:59:31 PM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: The Pack Knight

[Seems rather inconsistent with McConnell being “pleased” by impeachment as the New York Times’ and Fox’s “anonymous source” claimed. ]


It’s just amazing how much outright lying this paper does. Recently, the “senior Homeland Security official” repeatedly quoted on behind the scenes happenings turned out to be a gofer for a senior official. He then went to work for Google as a better-paid gofer.


55 posted on 01/13/2021 1:59:33 PM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: The Pack Knight

Good.

But we have 10 Republicans in the house who need to be primaried for siding with the impeachment.

Romney tops the primary list for his earlier vote on impeachment.

I think there are at least 3 senators who have voiced support for impeachment.Senators Lisa Murkowski, of Alaska, Ben Sasse, of Nebraska, and Pat Toomey, of Pennsylvania. But I’m not positive. We need to confirm that they actually voiced support for impeachment.


56 posted on 01/13/2021 1:59:38 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: JWNM

You see ridiculous statements like that don’t add to anything.

He’s a jerk and he screwed Trump by not backing him with the electoral fraud.

But he’s not been one to say one thing and do another, like graham.

A little less self righteousness and a little more willingness to fight is what’s needed among some republican voters.


57 posted on 01/13/2021 1:59:48 PM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: The Pack Knight

Very consistent with McConnell wanting to follow normal order.


58 posted on 01/13/2021 1:59:51 PM PST by jimfree (My 20 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quiality exec experience than an 8 year Obama.)
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To: dfwgator

Light ‘em up boys.

There are at least 10 turn coats. led by Liz Chenney according to the talking heads.


59 posted on 01/13/2021 2:00:05 PM PST by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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To: The Pack Knight

And yet there are no high crimes or misdemeanors detailed. I’m guessing the Democrats would go nuts if the Republicans took the House in 2022 and impeached whoever is the President.


60 posted on 01/13/2021 2:01:03 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Keep the Faith. Everything happens for a reason.)
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