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| It's Official: House Dems Close Up Shop Without Sending Articles of Impeachment to Senate |
| 2019-12-20 |
| h/t Instapundit [PJ] On Thursday, the House of Representatives adjourned before voting to send the articles of impeachment to the U.S. Senate for a trial. This made House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's stall-tactic official ‐ Democrats are refusing to forward the impeachment to the Senate until they receive assurances the trial will be fair in their eyes. Yet this arguably violates the Constitution. "Hoyer announces no more votes until January 7. Big cheer goes up in House chamber. This means the House won't approve a resolution on impeachment [managers] & to send impeachment [package] to Senate until at least January, 2020," |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #13 First new Constitutional Amendment in many years needed to prevent people like Pelosi pulling stunts like this again. |
| Posted by: Varmint Splat1454 2019-12-20 20:43 |
| #12 The Articles of Impeachment had to be entered into the Congressional Record. That's a matter of public record. No need for the proforma ritual. Just use that Mitch. The Constitution charges the Senate with the trial. Make it so. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-12-20 20:18 |
| #11 Nancy knows that her bogus articles are DOA in the Senate so she's trying to keep this whole kerfuffle going as long as she can and to blame Mitch as she goes. She signaled her virtue which was all she could do anyway but now she seems to have no clue how ridiculous she looks. Even her friends in MSM are baffled. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2019-12-20 12:19 |
| #10 Gingrich was on FoxNews this AM. One of his "Legal Expertâ„¢"friends has made the argument to him that by taking recess without acting on the impeachment, HoR has made it legally a dead deal that they would have to take up again after they return. He didn't know if that was true or not. Pretty obviously constitutional norms and rules don't matter to the Donks |
| Posted by: Frank G 2019-12-20 12:07 |
| #9 When they get back from the holidays, they'll find that their Yeah! Yeah! That's the ticket! |
| Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 2019-12-20 11:35 |
| #8 So basically he's not impeached until they deliver the articles of impeachment to the Senate but most of the Dem zealots believe he's impeached so they can enjoy the Holidays before the game is undone. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2019-12-20 11:21 |
| #7 Sentence first, verdict afterward -- and trial last of all. This madness is literally taken from a satirical lunatic-children's story. And playing out in the highest representative body of the land, in its full shining absurdity, in real time for all to see. What despicable morons. November can't come soon enough. |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-12-20 10:53 |
| #6 Complete, total, utter Shitshow. Do these people have even the faintest notion of how ridiculous they appear? Do they really talk to no one outside their bubble? No one? We are ruled by morons - and mad hatters. |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-12-20 10:49 |
| #5 After waiting 3 years for the Big Moment, you're going to pull out now? Gonna be fun watching the True Believers(tm) spin this. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2019-12-20 10:44 |
| #4 Well, other side of the "refusal to send" coin is "refusal to receive." |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-12-20 09:31 |
| #3 Great. Now make sure they can't get back in. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2019-12-20 09:00 |
| #2 Let's start with a Cocaine Mitch v. San Fran Nan cage match to the death. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2019-12-20 07:49 |
| #1 Big rush to stall out. |
| Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 2019-12-20 05:39 |