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****MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: Hoyer and Pelosi seem ready to play hardball to get a fair senate trial!!**

This is awesome. Basically, Madam Speaker's top lieutenant seems to be signalling that we will not allow Toad to have a sham exoneration trial in the senate. We have the power to force Mcconnell's hand here and it looks like we will do so!

Hoyer: 'We need to talk about' delaying Senate impeachment trial
By Kyle Cheney and John Bresnahan
12/18/2019 03:32 PM EDT

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, the second-ranking lawmaker in the House, said Wednesday that Democrats must discuss a last-ditch gambit to delay sending articles of impeachment to the Senate and prevent the Republican controlled chamber from summarily discarding the case against President Donald Trump.

"Some think it's a good idea. And we need to talk about it," Hoyer said just as the House began debating articles of impeachment that charge Trump with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.

In recent weeks, some legal scholars have suggested Speaker Nancy Pelosi could consider refusing to transmit articles of impeachment — likely to pass the House Wednesday evening — to the Senate, where Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has declared he is coordinating trial strategy with the White House.

Though the request seemed to have little currency on the hill, it's gained steam in recent days as McConnell has continued to insist he doesn't intend to act as an impartial overseer of the Senate trial.

Hoyer said Democratic colleagues have approached him in recent days, citing an op-ed by constitutional lawyer Laurence Tribe in which he calls on Democrats to delay sending impeachment articles to the Senate until McConnell agrees to run a fairer process.

"Under the current circumstances, such a proceeding would fail to render a meaningful verdict of acquittal," Tribe wrote. Notably, House Judiciary Committee Democrats huddled with Tribe earlier this month as they practiced behind closed doors for their series of impeachment hearings.

Some Democrats said they became convinced such a move was under consideration when House leaders decided against naming impeachment managers — the set of lawmakers who would argue their case on the Senate floor — until an undetermined later date.
When President Bill Clinton was impeached in 1998, House leaders identified their impeachment managers on the same day. But Pelosi instead will be empowered to pick managers at her discretion and without a deadline.

"The rule will allow the speaker to name managers at any point after the articles pass," a senior House Democratic aide said, noting that the House needs to name managers in order to transmit the articles to the Senate.

That effort, some Democrats noted, could not begin until managers are named.
Hoyer emphasized that early discussions about the timing of transmitting articles of impeachment to the Senate are "not in the context" of Tribe's proposal. But he said colleagues keep raising it.

"People have read that article, discussed it. People have come up to me, discussed it," he said, adding, "We will talk about it in some point in time. It's within the speaker's purview, obviously, she'll make that decision. And I also think she'll do it in discussions with McConnell and [Senate Minority Leader Chuck] Schumer."

To view online:
www.politico.com

Hoyer: ‘We need to talk about’ delaying Senate impeachment trial

Some legal scholars have suggested Speaker Nancy Pelosi could consider refusing to transmit articles of impeachment to the Senate.
www.politico.com www.politico.com
 
****MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: Hoyer and Pelosi seem ready to play hardball to get a fair senate trial!!**

This is awesome. Basically, Madam Speaker's top lieutenant seems to be signalling that we will not allow Toad to have a sham exoneration trial in the senate. We have the power to force Mcconnell's hand here and it looks like we will do so!

Hoyer: 'We need to talk about' delaying Senate impeachment trial
By Kyle Cheney and John Bresnahan
12/18/2019 03:32 PM EDT

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, the second-ranking lawmaker in the House, said Wednesday that Democrats must discuss a last-ditch gambit to delay sending articles of impeachment to the Senate and prevent the Republican controlled chamber from summarily discarding the case against President Donald Trump.

"Some think it's a good idea. And we need to talk about it," Hoyer said just as the House began debating articles of impeachment that charge Trump with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.

In recent weeks, some legal scholars have suggested Speaker Nancy Pelosi could consider refusing to transmit articles of impeachment — likely to pass the House Wednesday evening — to the Senate, where Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has declared he is coordinating trial strategy with the White House.

Though the request seemed to have little currency on the hill, it's gained steam in recent days as McConnell has continued to insist he doesn't intend to act as an impartial overseer of the Senate trial.

Hoyer said Democratic colleagues have approached him in recent days, citing an op-ed by constitutional lawyer Laurence Tribe in which he calls on Democrats to delay sending impeachment articles to the Senate until McConnell agrees to run a fairer process.

"Under the current circumstances, such a proceeding would fail to render a meaningful verdict of acquittal," Tribe wrote. Notably, House Judiciary Committee Democrats huddled with Tribe earlier this month as they practiced behind closed doors for their series of impeachment hearings.

Some Democrats said they became convinced such a move was under consideration when House leaders decided against naming impeachment managers — the set of lawmakers who would argue their case on the Senate floor — until an undetermined later date.
When President Bill Clinton was impeached in 1998, House leaders identified their impeachment managers on the same day. But Pelosi instead will be empowered to pick managers at her discretion and without a deadline.

"The rule will allow the speaker to name managers at any point after the articles pass," a senior House Democratic aide said, noting that the House needs to name managers in order to transmit the articles to the Senate.

That effort, some Democrats noted, could not begin until managers are named.
Hoyer emphasized that early discussions about the timing of transmitting articles of impeachment to the Senate are "not in the context" of Tribe's proposal. But he said colleagues keep raising it.

"People have read that article, discussed it. People have come up to me, discussed it," he said, adding, "We will talk about it in some point in time. It's within the speaker's purview, obviously, she'll make that decision. And I also think she'll do it in discussions with McConnell and [Senate Minority Leader Chuck] Schumer."

To view online:
www.politico.com

Hoyer: ‘We need to talk about’ delaying Senate impeachment trial

Some legal scholars have suggested Speaker Nancy Pelosi could consider refusing to transmit articles of impeachment to the Senate.
www.politico.com www.politico.com
 
Yeah but it will be pointless. Democrats don’t have a shot at controlling the senate until maybe 2022 when re-election is up.

Remember the election is 2020.

Plus there is a time limit or it will nullify and you have to start over again.
 
This is so terrible.......we should be focused in 2020 and not simply our pound of flesh.....

No one learned from Clinton's impeachment
 
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TRUMP IMPEACHED

 

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