More brazen corruption from the deranged Democrats. Speaker Nancy Pelosi does not want to send the articles of impeachment to the Senate. That is because she knows that this sham impeachment will be torn apart in the Republican Senate, were President Trump will have a fair trial. Therefore, she will now work to stall this process for as long as she can. Only the American people can put an end to this insanity, by voting the Democrats out of office in 2020.
Mitch McConnell rips Pelosi for impeachment delay, says Dems ‘afraid’ to transmit ‘shoddy’ articles. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell set the stage Thursday for a potentially bruising fight between the leadership of the two chambers over impeachment, as he tore into Nancy Pelosi for “shoddy work” and said Democrats may be “too afraid” to send the articles to the Senate after the House speaker abruptly held off on transmitting them.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell set the stage Thursday for a potentially bruising fight between the leadership of the two chambers over impeachment, as he tore into Nancy Pelosi for “shoddy work” and said Democrats may be “too afraid” to send the articles to the Senate after the House speaker abruptly held off on transmitting them
Fox News: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has a constitutional obligation to send articles of impeachment to the Senate, Judge Andrew Napolitano said Thursday.
Appearing on “Fox & Friends” with hosts Pete Hegseth, Steve Doocy, and Ainsley Earhardt, Napolitano said that while he has said there was a legal basis for impeachment in the House, lawmakers now have a “moral and constitutional obligation” to send the two articles of impeachment to the Senate.
In a news conference on Wednesday, following the House impeachment vote, Pelosi said that Democrats may wait to send their articles of impeachment against President Trump to the GOP-controlled Senate, for fear that they are incapable of holding a fair trial.
“Well, guess what?” asked Napolitano. “Under the Constitution, the Senate writes its own rules not subject to the approval of the speaker of the House or even the majority of the House.”
Earhardt asked Napolitano if the Senate could potentially take up the impeachment case without Pelosi passing it over.
“I don’t know,” he said. “That’s never happened.”
“But, the president is entitled to a trial to seek exoneration,” said Napolitano. “If these articles just sit on the speaker’s desk and go nowhere, that would be a profound and grave injustice to the president.”
Impeachment: Speaker Pelosi’s Predicament
No sooner did the House vote its articles of impeachment against the President than the Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, threatened to withhold them from the Senate. Her idea seems to be to force the Senate into announcing procedures for its trial that are more to the Democrats’ liking. The scheme was mooted Monday in an op-ed piece by a Harvard law professor, Laurence Tribe, in the Washington Post.
“Impeachment dies in broad daylight” could be the Post’s new slogan. That Mrs. Pelosi may sit on the impeachment became apparent following the vote, in which two articles were passed by House Democrats without so much as a single Republican vote. At a post-impeachment press conference, the Speaker astonished reporters by refusing to commit to transmitting the articles to the Senate.
Mrs. Pelosi’s remarks, Politico reported, were “barely audible above the clatter of camera shutters.” Her words, it added, “were so unexpected that they prompted reporters to shout over each other, interrupting the speaker at times and generating confusion about the next steps in the impeachment process.”
“So you may not send them?” Politico quoted one scribe as shouting in respect of the impeachment articles.
“You’re asking me, ‘So are we all going to go out and play in the snow?’” Politico quoted Mrs. Pelosi as replying. Bizarre.
If the Speaker seemed to be rattled in what ought to be her moment of glory, it could be that she’s suddenly realized the predicament into which she has precipitated the House. If she holds out for a Senate trial that excludes those who are less than impartial or have a personal interest, it could highlight a conflict of interest on the part of such Democratic candidates as, say, Senators Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and Cory Booker.
That’s the least of it. House Democrats want the impeachment prosecution to be able to call witnesses. Yet they are talking about witnesses they failed to go after during the proceedings in their own chamber. They plunged ahead without them. Now they are also up against the slab of American constitutional bedrock that establishes that “each House may determine the rules of its proceedings.”
That means that once the impeachment trial is underway, the House has to play by the rules of the Senate. How long it will take Mrs. Pelosi and her camarilla to accept that part of the parchment is hard to guess. It seems to us, though, that every day of delay works to the advantage of President Trump, who is waxing in the polls. That was reported early Wednesday by Gallup’s running survey of presidential approval.
Since the start of the impeachment inquiry, Gallup reported, Mr. Trump’s job approval numbers have notched up by six percentage points, to 45%. We wouldn’t want to make too much of that, but neither would be want to make too little. Maybe it would prove helpful to the Republicans to have Mrs. Pelosi hang onto the impeachment articles for a few months, so that the President can generate more popular support.
Nothing the House can do, after all, is likely to change what we like to call the deep Constitution. It ordains that once the articles of impeachment are approved, the President’s fate is out of the hands of the people, who always lurk in the House. The President’s fate is transferred to the states, which lurk in the Senate and are the very constitutional players who lofted the president to office in the first place.
This is a constitutional concept that the Democrats forgot in 2016. So Secretary of State Clinton campaigned for the popular vote. She got the popular vote she asked for, too, and by a handsome margin. Imagine how she felt when she awoke to discover that the decision belongs not to the people per se but to the states, who were so energetically courted by the man whom they turned into President Trump.
This no doubt helps account for the bitterness that erupted among the Democrats the moment Mr. Trump emerged as president-elect. One could sense that bitterness in the House today. Democrats are still overcome with fury at the deep Constitution that gives the states the power to name as the president the loser of the popular vote. The same Constitution puts the states, absent a reversal of fortune, in a position to acquit the President the people’s House impeached.
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Like most, especially President Trump, this betrayal began once Trump won the Presidency, beating the Democrats,’ Hillary’s sense of entitlement to the throne. Nancy Pelosi and her cabal of hypocritical conspirators will, hopefully, feel the effect of Karma in the coming months.
They deserve sweeping into the dustbin of history. Pelosi, Schiff, and others deserve to have the tables turned and indicted for treason. It, of course, will not pass, as she and her confederates, as they have proven, are above the law. The Democrats are not Democratic but a cobbling of malevolent, political principles, namely Totalitarianism. Nancy Pelosi is a consummate despot leading her sycophantic tagalongs, hopefully into the recycling bin of American history.
Mitch McConnell can start the Senate phase without Nancy Pelosi’s consent.
Brietbart rightly points that out:
“Unfortunately for them, the Senate can act, regardless — and would vote to acquit.”
“Article I, Section 3 says: “The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments.”
Trump is a dictator.
A tyrant.
Manipulates and controls people and the Congress.
In America only his will gets done.
…that’s why he was impeached.
Do you get the Dem’s hypocrisy?
He’s not very good at the dictatorship business is he, nor the tyrant business, nor manipulating and controlling people, is he? After all, he didn’t control Pelosi and he sure did not control Congress, did he? And he is a dud at controlling the main stream media, isn’t he?
He gets an F as a tyrant.
Now she is really too old to work like a politwhore.
First she lost her appearance – now her brain.
May be good enough for Madame TRUFFAUT’s Cabinet
Nancy has screwed over her party & good. The Constitution rightly assumes that once articles of impeachment are drawn, the immediate next step is the trial in the Senate (Constitution is all about fair & speedy trials). Holding off on submitting these articles to the Senate is similar to proposing to someone without the expectation of marriage. It’s just stupid.
I still don’t understand what anyone would call a legal basis for POTUS Trump to be impeached at all. I do, however, know that Obama committed impeachable offenses on a frequent basis and no one said a word. If there weren’t so many ignorant Americans Trump’s approval would probably be 80%.
You are very right about the low information level of many Americans and BO committed everything, right up through outright treason…
Judge Nap is not a good source for anything. He is totally biased against President Trump…
Hillary might have won more votes than Trump but she did not win the popular vote, meaning she did not get over 50% of the popular vote. If you think of it as votes against Hillary, there were more votes against Hillary than for Hillary. So, let’s stop declaring her the winner of the popular vote.