Posted on 01/09/2020 1:16:00 PM PST by yesthatjallen
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is backing a resolution to change the Senate’s rules to allow for lawmakers to dismiss articles of impeachment against President Trump before the House sends them over.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) announced on Thursday that McConnell has signed on as a co-sponsor to the resolution, which he introduced earlier this week.
Spokesmen for McConnell didn't immediately respond to a request for comment about his support.
Changing the rules would either require a two-thirds vote or for Republicans to deploy the "nuclear" option.
The resolution would give the House 25 days to send articles of impeachment over to the Senate. After that, a senator could offer a motion to dismiss "with prejudice for failure by the House of Representatives to prosecute such articles" with a simple majority vote, according to Hawley's proposal.
McConnell has repeatedly lashed out at Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) for delaying sending over the two articles of impeachment.
"This is what they have done: They have initiated one of the most grave and most unsettling processes in our Constitution and then refused to allow a resolution," he said on Thursday.
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Mitch impresses again
She said it was of utmost importance and couldn’t wait.
Clearly she lied and abused the powers of the House leadership.
Add in a Rule to Hold the Speaker of the House in Contempt of the Senate for this charade and you got a deal.
Mitch, is that carapace of yours turning into iron?
Yeah? I know a 2/3 vote is required to remove the president based on a House Impeachment. But I think a simple 51% majority is all that's needed to vote to dismiss lacking articles.
Mitch has had enough nonsense!
25 days to send articles of impeachment over to the Senate.????
More like 24 hrs, she’s had plenty of time
Then he’d better get of his arse and she is now saying she will send it over on 1/10/20, All night Session Mitch, Call it dang it...
So they’ve got 25 days to invent a bunch of new dirt on POTUS. They will begin doing this forthwith and then make demands for amended Articles. If that effort seems to be going south they will send over the current Articles in 25 days.
Hopefully, a dismissal with prejudice ends up in the Congressional record. Makes it harder for CNN to lie about it 15 years later.
She gets an incomplete on her homework, missed the deadlines, and has Failed...
Mitch impresses again
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he’s been great all through this
Changing the rules would either require a two-thirds vote or for Republicans to deploy the “nuclear” option....
We’re in unknown territory. Some legal experts are saying that the 2/3 vote only applies when the senate officially receives the articles. Until that time they are free to change the rules with 51 votes.
I prefer Grahams plan to try the case without the articles by letting Trump’s lawyers rebut the house case. Then vote to acquit.
It's referring to a 2/3 vote to change the rules, not to dismiss.
But I'm not sure if it's right. I thought a rules change only required a majority vote.
The rule would probably be changed to 25 days from the date the House passes articles of impeachment. So the clock is already ticking.
Yeah. You said the same thing I did in post 6.
Senate Rules can be (and are routinely) changed with just a minimum of 51 votes.
Good point and I hope you are correct.
Bravo, but... 25 days? I’d give her until Monday morning at 8a.m. Gives them all weekend to work on it.
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