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WASHINGTON — The day after the House cast historic votes to impeach President Trump, Speaker Nancy Pelosi put an abrupt halt on the proceedings, holding back from sending the charges to the Republican-led Senate in a politically risky bid to exert influence over the contours of an election-year trial. With some leading Democrats pushing to delay transmittal of the articles and others advocating that they be withheld altogether, the limbo is likely to persist until the new year. The House left town on Thursday for a two-week holiday recess without taking the votes to appoint impeachment managers, which is required...

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) says Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) strategy of holding articles of impeachment in the House rather than sending them to the upper chamber won’t put any pressure on him to agree to a rules package for the Senate trial. “It’s beyond me how the Speaker and Democratic leader in the Senate think withholding the articles of impeachment and not sending them over gives them leverage,” McConnell told reporters after criticizing the House impeachment effort in a lengthy floor speech. “Frankly, I’m not anxious to have the trial. If she thinks her case is so weak...

It’s hard to believe the Speaker’s latest stunt will go on for very long. I’ll confess: Last night, when I was first told that Speaker Nancy Pelosi was toying with the idea of not delivering the two articles of impeachment voted by the House against President Trump, I assumed it was a joke. For these last weeks, the Democrat-dominated chamber has been in a mad rush to impeach the president. Democrats even tacked on article two — “obstruction of Congress” — because, they told us, time could not be wasted engaging in the usual negotiation and litigation over legislative demands...

One of the legal scholars who testified in the impeachment proceedings believes that President Trump could argue he has not been impeached until the House sends the articles to the Senate. Noah Feldman, a professor at Harvard Law School, published an opinion piece in Bloomberg on Thursday arguing against the House Democrats withholding the articles of impeachment, thus preventing the Senate from holding a trial. "Both parts are necessary to make an impeachment under the Constitution: The House must actually send the articles and send managers to the Senate to prosecute the impeachment. And the Senate must actually hold a...

On Wednesday, after the House of Representatives impeached President Donald Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi addressed the next steps in impeachment. Normally, this would mean the transmission of the charges to the Senate by House managers acting as prosecutors. Instead, Pelosi said that the House would not appoint managers and send the charges to the Senate until it knew what the trial would look like. Pelosi then went even further, suggesting that the charges might not even make it to the Senate. “We will make our decision as to when...

One of our perennial school pranks was to place a whoopee cushion secretly on the chair of an unsuspecting teacher. When she sat, she would launch the resounding clap of flatulence. That, metaphorically, is what just happened to Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Unfortunately, she placed it on her own chair. The embarrassing noise sounded when she announced she would delay sending the House’s Articles of Impeachment to the Senate. This delay was a nakedly partisan ploy — and a major error of political judgment. Every day it continues will cost Democrats in the general election. Why? First, the Democrats should be...

Late last night after two articles of impeachment were passed by House Democrats, Speaker Nancy Pelosi indicated she wouldn't be sending them to the Senate for a trial anytime soon. On Thursday afternoon, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer announced no additional votes will be taken until January 7.  Reporter: Can you guarantee that the impeachment articles will be at some point sent to the Senate? Can you guarantee that? @SpeakerPelosi: That would've been our intention, but we'll see what happens over there. pic.twitter.com/oEEtK0nDdH— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) December 19, 2019 Hoyer announces no more votes until January 7. Big cheer goes up...

Now that the House of Representatives has voted to impeach President Trump, action shifts to the Senate, whose members are charged by the Constitution to determine whether he should be convicted or acquitted. Yet wary Democrats are slow-walking the process in a bid to secure procedural guarantees from Senate Republicans on how the trial will unfold. The House must first appoint members who will manage its case during the trial. When that happens, the House can notify the Senate of its decision to impeach the president and appoint managers.According to Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., the House will refrain from appointing...

The United States Supreme Court ruled in Nixon v. United States (1993): "the three very specific requirements that the Constitution does impose on the Senate when trying impeachments [are]: The Members must be under oath, a two-thirds vote is required to convict, and the Chief Justice presides when the President is tried. These limitations are quite precise, and their nature suggests that the Framers did not intend to impose additional limitations on the form of the Senate proceedings" (emphasis added) Ergo, if Mad Nan chooses not to 'formally deliver' the articles of impeachment and/or to not send 'managers' to present...

IT’S OFFICIAL: House Dems Close Up Shop Without Sending Articles of Impeachment to Senate. “‘Hoyer announces no more votes until January 7. Big cheer goes up in House chamber. This means the House won’t approve a resolution on impeachment [managers] & to send impeachment [package] to Senate until at least January, 2020,’ Fox News reporter Chad Pergram tweeted.” Related: Trump’s lawyers wonder: If Pelosi never delivers the articles of impeachment, does that mean he’s not really impeached? More: “Trump Isn’t Impeached Until the House Tells the Senate, According to the Constitution, impeachment is a process, not a vote” – says...

Consider it a twist on the old question about a tree falling in the forest with no one to hear it: If the House adopts articles of impeachment but never sends them to the Senate, is a president truly impeached? A Harvard law professor, who also served as a Democrat-called impeachment witness, answered with a resounding “no” in a column that speaks to the deep dilemma House Speaker Nancy Pelosi faces as she sits on two articles of impeachment against President Trump. Pelosi, D-Calif., is apparently using the delay as leverage to extract favorable terms for a Senate trial. But...

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich said Friday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's temporary hold on two articles of impeachment is "absurd" and that she looks "foolish." Appearing on "America's Newsroom" with host Sandra Smith, Gingrich explained that Pelosi, D-Calif., is in a "world that's out of control." "Why would you start a fight in the House knowing you are going to lose control of it to the people who are very capable of making you look very foolish?" he asked. "And yet, that's the dance they began." Gingrich predicted that an impeachment trial would eventually make it to...

Fox & Friends rejoiced on Friday morning over an op-ed arguing that President Donald Trump is not technically impeached until Congress sends over its articles to the Senate. “One of the Democrats’ witnesses was Noah Feldman, a law scholar,” Fox & Friends host Steve Doocy said, in a segment. “As it turns out he says that the president of the United States right now has not been impeached.” “Oops!” noted guest host Katie Pavlich. Feldman, a professor at Harvard Law School who testified as a witness for Democrats in the House impeachment hearings, wrote in a piece for Bloomberg that,...

VIDEO By the afternoon of December 19, the day after the House voted for impeachment, pundits in the media began noticing that since the articles of impeachment were not handed over to the Senate, this meant that President Trump was technically NOT impeached. Even the constitutional scholar that the Democrats had testify during their hearings, Noah Feldman, confirmed that until the Senate gets the articles of impeachment then he is NOT impeached. So who was the FIRST to notice that Trump was NOT impeached. This video reveals that it was Brian Craig, co-host of the Steve Kane Radio Show...

Fox News host Laura Ingraham insisted on Thursday night that President Donald Trump was not actually impeached and that the entire process was “pretend.” “America’s first fake impeachment,” Ingraham claimed one day after 230 House members voted yea to Article I of impeachment, on if Trump abused executive powers, and 229 voted yea on Article II, which accused him of obstructing justice. “Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff were right about one thing. Yesterday was historic. But not for the reason they claim. It’s historic because it was the first time the impeachment process has been used for purely partisan reasons.”...