Posted on 12/19/2019 8:18:17 AM PST by libstripper
If the House doesn’t produce articles of impeachment for the Senate then the impeachment process hasn’t been completed and there is no impeachment.
Years? Well at least until the expiration of this Congress at the end of 2020. I’m not sure that they would still be valid after that if not moved over to the Senate.
Methinks the next House of Representatives in 2021 would have to start the process over. This assumes Dems are still in control, which I have my doubts.
Democrats thought impeachment was so urgent that they needed to pass it within a year of the elections where the actual voters get to decide for themselves whether to remove Trump from office but it’s not so urgent that they can’t sit on it for weeks while they continue their fishing expeditions.
She made a colossal blunder in making public demands on the Senate. Few things piss off a career politician more than having another politician outside their legislative body tell them how to do their job. And that sentiment is magnified about a thousand times for U.S. senators.
Listen to this Senator McConnell. Mete out some judicial punishment to these bazarre,dark,existential Demoncrat gangsters!!
Stalling until the Iowa caucuses maybe?
But if they lose the House in November, can the House GOP vote to nullify the “shampeachment”?? I’d like to know what options there are from anyone who knows what the legal moves are which would be pursued.
I've read several times that no matter if Pelosi does or does not send the article to the Senate - it's a moot point. The House has voted. It's no longer in their department. It is now officially a Senate Procedure.
It's like calling the cops and filing charges on someone. You may later change your mind. You may wish to NOT press charges or NOT seek prosecution. Too bad. You no longer have that option or choice.
Pelosi knows this impeachment was a YUGE mistake. She's trying to walk it back. Too bad. She has no control of this process now. It's in the Senate's wheelhouse.
Thanks for your feedback. Yeah, I’ve messed around with many snapping turtles when I was younger. Yapping turtles?...not so much.
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Listen to this Senator McConnell. Mete out some judicial punishment to these bazarre,dark,existential Demoncrat gangsters!!
“Nancy will hold these articles for years then, always threatening “Just need a Majority in the Senate and these impeachment articles will go through.”
I don’t think Articles of Impeachment survive past the Congress that passed them. So, unless Pelosi delivers the Articles to the Senate in 2020, they expire.
Here’s my theory, and possibly the Dems didn’t think far enough down the road should impeachment pass.
The process is to assign “Managers” who are to be the ones to argue the reason behind impeachment to the Senate. What individual in their right mind, wants to be the one to argue what is essentially a shoddy process, in front of a deciding body where the argument is essentially dead on arrival? Maybe Pelosi CAN’T find anyone who wants to touch something this toxic.
The same sort of rules limit the House by specifying a new impeachment inquiry must wait a year after the last vote on articles.
I don’t know why people keep harping on this “take Congress to court” angle. Federal courts have no business getting involved in most disputes between different branches of government, and a sitting President shows real weakness when he pursues legal avenues instead of just standing up and acting like a leader by using the powers vested in him under the U.S. Constitution. Seeking an injunction in Federal court right now is like asking Judge Judy to please tell Nancy Pelosi to stop being mean.
Right now the Dims are frantically trying to hold onto their base.
They are NOT even thinking about the other 60-65% of the electorate.
They’re cornered and desperate.
“Then she got testy and refused to answer any more questions on it.”
She fancies herself above the rest of us. I yearn for her fall.
You are so right.
We all know that Mitch and the Repukes in the Senate could not give a care about Trump. Whether he is impeached, removed or whatever.
But this is not about Trump. This entire impeachment fiasco is really a power struggle between Rats in the House and Repubs in the Senate.
And as such, Senate Republicans are rightly asserting their power and control to defeat democrats.
And the fact this benefits the President is really not a primary concern to them.
“It is interesting, in that both the Senate and POTUS have institutional interest in this Pelosi-triggered constitutional crisis”.
Right. And Pelosi and the other Dems own it and will regret their farce(s) more and more.
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