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FBaggins

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6. They were and they weren't

Reply to Fullduplexxx (Reply #5)

Tue Jan 14, 2020, 11:52 AM

Jan 2020

My opinion is that they were being held just to draw attention to the "rigged" character of the expected trial... and that she never really had the power to hold them indefinitely.

She didn't get much, but it was more than she would have gotten by passing them immediately.

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House Will Vote Wednesday to Send Impeachment Articles, Pelosi Says [View all] BumRushDaShow Jan 2020 OP

Here we go. MontanaMama Jan 2020 #1

I expect it will be the lawyers who argued the impeachment case BumRushDaShow Jan 2020 #2

I doubt that anyone but House members will be permitted nt FBaggins Jan 2020 #4

Post impeachment trial bucolic_frolic Jan 2020 #3

I dont understand this. weren't they being held cause mcconnell promised a rigged election Fullduplexxx Jan 2020 #5

They were and they weren't FBaggins Jan 2020 #6

I was reading a couple articles this morning BumRushDaShow Jan 2020 #7

Lock him up! Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2020 #8