I’ve heard that if there is an impeachment, that the Senate is supposed to drop all other business until the impeachment trial is concluded. So that would delay the Senate vote on the Barrett nomination.
I don’t know if this is true. I’ve only heard partisan liberals say this.
Even if that is the case right now, it would be solely a function of internal Senate rules, and those rules can be changed any time by a majority vote. And I'm pretty sure that if McConnell has the votes to get Barrett a floor vote, he'd have at least that many votes from Senators pissed off that the House is attempting to derail Senate business with an unjustified impeachment solely to stop a confirmation vote.
Dems would look absolutely horrible if they did that, so I do hope they try. But I think Pelosi is too smart to score an own goal like that.
Yeah?
So how come Pelosi held the impeachment articles for a whole month before handing them over to the US Senate? The Senate can hold them up too as payback, same as Pelosi did.
And there won't even be trial this time. Mitch will simply bring in a motion to dismiss. It won't even take 2 hours