Pelosi says House not voting on impeachment managers Friday as Senate trial delay continues
Source: wtkr.com
Posted 10:41 am, January 10, 2020, by CNN Wire
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said there will not be a vote Friday to name impeachment managers, a sign that the weeks-long impasse over starting President Donald Trumps impeachment trial in the Senate will continue at least into next week.
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Neither Pelosi nor Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have yet budged in their stare down over the two impeachment articles that the House passed last month, charging Trump with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
Pelosi has withheld the articles from the Senate, preventing the chamber from beginning the impeachment trial, as Democrats have pushed for McConnell to allow witnesses to testify in the Senate trial. Pelosi has said she wants to see the arena that the impeachment managers will operate in during the trial before naming them and sending the articles to the Senate.
But McConnell has said he will not publish the rules resolution ahead of time and will not agree to witnesses before the trial begins. Hes argued that the Senate should agree to a rule to begin the trial and then later decide on witnesses, just as the Senate did during the 1999 impeachment trial of former President Bill Clinton. And he said this week hes got the votes all Republicans to go that route.
Democrats argue that McConnell is not following the Clinton precedent, because the Senate witnesses in that trial had already testified before a grand jury, while the witnesses Senate Democrats are seeking including former national security adviser John Bolton and acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney refused to testify during the Houses impeachment inquiry.........................
Read more: https://wtkr.com/2020/01/10/pelosi-says-house-not-voting-on-impeachment-managers-friday-as-senate-trial-delay-continues/
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)more information coming out that in fact t-rump created a horrible and dangerous situation in order to promote and secure his cult member Republicans to acquit him . . .
Vote them out!
empedocles
(15,751 posts)and trump saying to mc c 'admit nothing].
Saw on MSNBC this morning a former McConnell staffter wryly saying, [as I remember], 'these negotiations are in the discussion stage.
This process has more to play out.'
[In the meantime, the Speaker seems to be allowing trump more time to screw up for the 'cons, evidence to build, and trump's support continue to weaken].
bucolic_frolic
(43,281 posts)maxsolomon
(33,400 posts)of Impeachment. She's playing this for November.
No "exoneration" to brag about.
bucolic_frolic
(43,281 posts)Getting Trump stable and able to deliver it is one thing.
Where he goes off script is another. He might think it a campaign rally, and really trash Pelosi or anyone else.
SOTU could prove the point of unsuitability for office. Be a shame not to have Articles on the shelf.
maxsolomon
(33,400 posts)He'll spend half the time directly attacking the Democrats in Congress, the other half bragging about economic gains that happened in spite of him.
It will be cringe-worthy, no doubt. I don't like to feel Schadenfreude, but I think it will be unavoidable.
hot2na
(358 posts)Let them squirm as long as possible. Their strategy is to quickly put an end to the whole impeachment business. The longer Speaker Pelosi holds out, the more difficult it becomes as 1) More information about Trumps corruption comes out 2) Trump commits more impeachable acts 3) support for impeachment continues to rise.
Baitball Blogger
(46,757 posts)Maybe I heard wrong?
BumRushDaShow
(129,440 posts)so assume if they do transmit next week, it might not be until the end of the week. And based on the House schedule, the week after next (week of 1/20/20) they will be off the whole week (MLK birthday is a federal holiday on 1/20/19) and I'll assume the Senate will be off that week as well. So that's 2 weeks "down".
That leaves one week left in January and the SOTU is scheduled for 2/4/20 I believe (1st week of February). So just based on these events and the congressional schedules, it could be that they will force the Senate to not really "start" until after the SOTU (meaning no "rah rah I'm exonerated by the Senate" stuff during the SOTU).
Baitball Blogger
(46,757 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,440 posts)Some nuance -
By John Wagner, Colby Itkowitz and Mike DeBonis
Jan. 10, 2020 at 12:04 p.m. EST
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced Friday that the House next week will consider a resolution to appoint impeachment managers and transmit articles of impeachment to the Senate, setting the stage for a historic trial of President Trump.
Her announcement, in a letter to Democratic colleagues, came shortly after the House ended its work week without taking a vote on the matter. As recently as Thursday, Pelosi continued to insist that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) should release a resolution laying out rules of a trial before the articles were transmitted.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-impeachment-live-updates/2020/01/10/e65f5f16-3398-11ea-a053-dc6d944ba776_story.html
The nuance being (outside of the ridiculous simplistic media headlines and characterization by assuming that something like that would instantly get transmitted Monday) that there would be a process needed to draft "the resolution" in the Judiciary Committee and then have all the amendments and debate and whatnot happen - where the GOP will once more make moves to scuttle the thing but would also most likely need to appoint people from "their side", and then have the final markup get voted out of that Committee... afterwhich it will need to go to the Rules Committee to have the companion legislation drafted on how the Articles Transmission Resolution will be debated (amendments/amount of time for debate, etc), and then finally it'll hit the House floor for a final debate by the full House and a vote.
So if they do vote on the final resolution, that would most likely happen Thursday and I expect they'll be off on Friday ahead of the long weekend and "district work period" that following week (so it'll get sent over when "no one", other than the local reps, is left in D.C. ).
Baitball Blogger
(46,757 posts)I am fully on board with Pelosi, whatever course she takes.