Pelosi Announces She Will Send Impeachment Articles to Senate Next Week

[demmiblue]

Source: The Daily Beast

Three weeks after the House of Representatives voted to impeach President Donald Trump, Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced her intention to officially send articles of impeachment to the Senate—a move that ends the House’s role in the process and tees up a Senate trial that could begin as early as next week.

Pelosi put an end to weeks of speculation about her strategy with a low-key letter to fellow House Democrats on Friday morning. The speaker wrote that she had asked Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) to be “prepared” to introduce a resolution next week that would transmit the articles to the Senate and appoint the handful of Democratic lawmakers who will act as prosecutors in the trial.

“In an impeachment trial, every Senator takes an oath to ‘do impartial justice according to the Constitution and laws,’” wrote Pelosi. “Every senator now faces a choice: to be loyal to the president or the Constitution.”

The release comes as a relief to some Democrats who had steadily lost patience with Pelosi’s gambit to hold the articles on the House side in the hopes of pressuring Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to implement procedures for a Senate trial that Democrats would consider fair—including an agreement to allow new witnesses and evidence to be presented.

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[yaesu]

1. no, no, no, she said she would meet with her caucus to decide if or when she will send

Articles to Senate. She did not say that she would be sending them next week.

[onenote]

6. No ifs.

Here is the relevant language from the letter:

I have asked Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler to be prepared to bring to the Floor next week a resolution to appoint managers and transmit articles of impeachment to the Senate. I will be consulting with you at our Tuesday House Democratic Caucus meeting on how we proceed further.

Here's the entire letter: https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/10/politics/pelosi-impeachment-vote-letter/index.html

Not surprised that this was timed for a Friday news dump.

[GeorgeGist]

19. What part of be prepared ...

do you not understand?

[BigmanPigman]

2. I had hoped she would wait until after the

State Of The Union Address. Why now, losing Dem Senator support?

[RockRaven]

4. I will be surprised if McTurtle cannot ram through a sham trial before SOTU

if you give him 3 weeks to work with. Then Trump will spend a great deal of SOTU -- his biggest platform of the year -- dunking on Dems. Seems like an additional week or two would make a big difference.

[Traildogbob]

3. So.....

We put all our eggs in a basket that GOP adheres to or gives and damn about an oath to the constitution. Like they constantly have proven. Now our only salvation is they will allow fair election, as they have proven. China, Iran, if your listening, with all the tech savvy you have, release EVERTHING on theses asshole and hack away at the elections. Time to get off the high road and play their game.
Listen to Huckabees remarks yesterday about congressional war powers and trumps powers. You think she has ever read the constitution? She speaks for the GOP. Our power, our rules, fuck the majority of the country. God sent him.

[usaf-vet]

5. I hope there is a BIG IF following the Pelosi statement.

Pelosi Announces She Will Send Impeachment Articles to Senate Next Week

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[onenote]

7. Nope. See post 6

[usaf-vet]

8. :( :(

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

9. Lock him up!!!!

[Wuddles440]

10. HUGE mistake!!!!!!

[MineralMan]

11. Really? Care to expand on that?

Or was it something Bullwinkle told you. See, we don't know you, so we can't guess at your reasoning. Please explain.

[Zeus69]

12. Strategy backfired?

You "rush" through house, then slam the breaks. Might have been better to ask SC to rule on subpoenas.
This has a "well, we gave it a shot" flavor... Perhaps she didn't expect EVERY SINGLE REPUBLICAN would fall in line despite the evidence. Not the best look for Dems, but I may be missing an angle.

[jalan48]

13. I didn't understand the rush to the process as well. Why didn't we wait until the Courts had

ruled on forcing Bolton and others to testify before the House?

[OneCrazyDiamond]

14. It allowed for Trump to be an impeached President during family holidays.

I am sure there was many a conversation as it relates to the upcoming election during the break. Besides we can always file them again.

[jalan48]

16. What difference did that make? Is Pelosi signaling future filings?

[OneCrazyDiamond]

17. We will see in November. N/T

[jalan48]

18. We certainly will.

[OneCrazyDiamond]

15. Hoping they vote No to the resolution at this time.

[onenote]

20. Zero chance of that happening

Do you really think Pelosi would instruct Nadler to prepare and introduce a resolution only to have it get defeated?

[OneCrazyDiamond]

22. Your probably right.

My brother tells me Hope rhymes with Dope all the time. I think he is a trumper though, and has no hope.

[Linda Ed]

21. She knows what she is doing cause guess what?

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