Posted on 01/06/2020 1:28:53 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Roughly a dozen GOP senators want to change the Senates rules and allow for lawmakers to dismiss articles of impeachment against President Trump before the House sends them over.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) introduced the resolution on Monday, arguing the Senate's impeachment rules do not envision a scenario where the House would delay transmitting articles against a president, as Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has done.
"The Constitution gives the Senate sole power to adjudicate articles of impeachment, not the House. If Speaker Pelosi is afraid to try her case, the articles should be dismissed for failure to prosecute and Congress should get back to doing the peoples business," Hawley said in a statement.
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.
The resolution comes as some Senate Republicans have mulled changing the chamber's rules to allow them to dismiss the impeachment charges against Trump, even though the articles have not been sent over from the House.
Hawley's resolution has support from GOP Sens. Rick Scott (Fla.), Mike Braun (Ind.), Marsha Blackburn (Tenn.), Ted Cruz (Texas), Steve Daines (Mont.), John Barrasso (Wyo.), Tom Cotton (Ark.), Joni Ernst (Iowa), David Perdue (Ga.) and James Inhofe (Okla.).
"Speaker Pelosi and House Democrats have made a mockery of our Constitution and abused impeachment for political gain. Now, theyre undermining the role of the Senate by attempting to dictate the terms of the Senates trial," Cruz said in a statement.
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I think a lot of that is going to come out in Barrs investigation and probably better founded and more clearly. A lot of Dems who are not in the FBI or CIA were involved in this plot.
Trump and the Senate...and, for that matter, the House...have more important things to do. Like protecting the US from the Mad Mullahs. Not that the Dems care.
Double jeopardy?
Those are the three Rice Krispies rejects.
Ha, this is not a “legal” proceeding in any sense of the word.
This is what Pehosi wants. By not sending the Articles of Impeachment and the Senate Repubes voting to dismiss the Articles, it removes her from being the fall guy in this whole process. She knows the way the House ran the Impeachment hearings was a farce and she can’t in due conscious send this over to the Senate. She also knows that if she holds onto them long enough that the Senate will get restless and do what they are doing now. And once the Senate acts on the farcical Articles of Impeachment they will be rendered null and void in her eyes. Then she can wait until Trump’s second term, provided she still holds the House, to impeach Trump once again this time with her people in the lead roles and Schifty and Nads out of the picture.
Since it’s not important to Pelosi, it shouldn’t be important to us.
“Whats to prevent her and our domestic enemies from keeping voting on and resubmitting these horseclinton articles of impeachment?
I’m not smart enough to be a lawyer, but, if the
articles are dismissed and President Trump is
aquitted, would not that be double jeapordy if
the house tries to impeach on the same articles?
“....the House...have more important things to do.”
They haven’t been doing them since they were voted in this time. They’ve been busy trying to dirty Trump. They fear Trump. He has made it a point to identify people that are not within the standards we, the voters, expect. And he has further allowed them to paint themselves into the proverbial corner with this impeachment fallacy with all the trimmings, also known as baggage, it contains.As usual, a picture is worth a thousand words.
However, with the identification of baggage also comes the home grown type. That is why he is getting so little support from his party but a lot of support from the voters. Crooked politicians come from all walks of party. And too many so called republicans are just as dirty as the democrats.
When he was elected I observed a president that was kick butt and take no names coming in. He has done that and continues by letting all those commit suicide he can. More power to him. I don’t need conservatives/liberals. I need people that are trying to help the people and not themselves. It is unfortunate the graft is on both sides of the aisle.
rwood
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