There is supposed to be a vote to open the impeachment process, and a second vote in the house to impeach.
House democrats are trying to skip first vote, even though there is precedent to do so.
Interesting. When does the House present evidence of High Crimes?
Trump is asking the House to vote to BEGIN the impeachment process. When the House did that earlier this year, there were not enough votes to begin the process. So, unless and until that vote gets overturned, Trump maintains there is no authority that has power in these U.S.
Regardless, I don’t expect House Democrats to follow the rules and I don’t expect their conspirators in the press to squawk.
Letter from Trump team to Pelosi:
Trump is demanding the house hold a vote on holding an “impeachment inquiry”. He’s not asking for a vote to Impeach in which articles of Impeachment would have been drawn up.
Traditionally the house votes to hold an Impeachment Inquiry and then the whole house participates in the inquiry. After which articles of impeachment are drawn up and voted on and sent to the Senate.
What’s happening now, is partisan inquiry using the hcommittees of the house, but denying fair participation by the Republicans, open hearings, and participation by the White House counsel among others.
Schiff is trying to build a 'gallows' but he will end up hanging the demon rat party on his gallows. (See the OT Book of Esther)
They can keep impeaching him.
Not like anything matters or anything will stop them.
Something needs to stop them though, they are the,ojes that committed treason and tried framing the president. Hillary and bill and chelsea all need long jail time.
I think it then goes to the floor for debate.
No. The judiciary committee then investigates (holds hearings,subpoenas witnesses, etc). When ready the case is sent to the senate for trial with specific alkehations
It’s all about keeping the word impeachment in the forefront through the election. Stupid people attach to this easily especially with the typical American “education”.
They have to vote articles of impeachment which lay out the charges and factual evidence in support to support taking it to trial in the senate. And to get the facts they need evidentiary hearings. And to force testimony at hearings they need subpoenas. And to get subpoenas they need to vote to open the impeachment inquiry. It’s a nasty chain of requirement that have the twisted in a logical pretzel of their own making.
The Democrats have already voted against impeachment twice, most recently in July. This current farce has not been voted on. It is a fiction to impress the unintelligent DemocRAT base.
Trump is genius to try to force them to a third vote by refusing to cooperate with his own lynching unless they vote.
The process is supposed to go:
1. Vote to start the process.
2. Investigation
3. The Judicial Committe writes and passes articles of impeachment.
4. The house votes on those articles.
5. The passed articles are sent to the Senate for Trial.
The President and the minority should be represented and allowed to have access to the proceedings.
By not “starting” the process, they locked out all of the “precedents” of fairness. Nixon got better treatment. And he actually broke laws.
The raw courage shown by Trump on this is monumental. And in the face of a fraudulent “poll” claiming 30% of Republicans support an “inquiry.” Remember when that pussy clown Bush caved to special prosecutors over the silly Plame nonsense and Federal prosecutors firings? He let the Democrats roll right over him. Trump is telling them “F YOU!” THE Lord be with you, Mr. President!
The first vote authorizes the inquiry and drafting of articles of impeachment. The second approves or disapproves the drafted articles, which triggers the Senate trial if any are approved.
Oh - and the first vote also makes the investigation more even-handed, where the minority party has subpoena power, the President has the right to see all evidence and introduce evidence, and the proceedings are required to be above board. As it is now, the “investigation” is a star chamber hunt for witches.