WASHINGTON — Just minutes after impeaching President Trump, and just steps from where that historic vote took place, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi praised House Democrats for upholding their constitutional duty and called on the Senate, and its Republican leaders, to do the same.
“We have done as the framers would have us do,” said Rep. Adam Schiff of California, the House Intelligence Committee chairman and a leader of the impeachment inquiry. Still, the Senate’s majority party will set the trial’s ground rules, just as Democrats have set the rules for the House stage of the impeachment inquiry. Worrying that Senate Republicans will in effect try to nullify the work House Democrats have done, some proponents of the impeachment effort have urged in recent days that House Democrats to not send those articles until Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell agrees to what Democrats could credibly regard as a fair trial.
Speaking at the press conference following the impeachment vote, the Democratic leaders did not say they would withhold articles of impeachment, but they also left that possibility open. Were they to do so, Trump would find himself in an uncomfortable legal limbo, impeached by the House but not acquitted by the Senate.
alexnazaryan She needs to be reminded she is speaker of the house and does not control the Senate.
alexnazaryan Mitch has 2 other choices. Refuse to take up the impeachment trial if it doesn’t arrive promptly, or commence the trial and enter a default if the house managers are no shows. What is Pelosi going to do? Take Mitch to the Supreme Court. I think not but would love to see it
alexnazaryan Pelosi is a educated fool.
alexnazaryan All for naught then. CocaineMitch checkmate