Pelosi looking to swing votes b4 she submits. Her team needs time to find stuff for blackmail.

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Pelosi:  I'm not going to deliver the articles of impeachment to the Senate until I'm satisfied the trial process will be fair.

McConnell:  No problem.  We have better things to do.

Trump:  Thanks for proving what a sham the entire inquiry was.


So, Nancy thinks she gets to dictate to the Senate majority leader how to run their Constitutionally directed impeachment hearings?  LOL!  Maybe she didn't read far enough ahead to realize she would have to let the Senate try the case?  "We have to impeach President Trump before we decide what to do after the House votes on it."

I must have missed the part of the House hearings where Nancy let McConnell tell her what to do.

I think McConnell said how can Pelosi hold the articles over his head when he doesn’t want them. 

I was listening to the council for the president this morning. They agree with the Harvard Law Professor that was a main witness for the Dems for impeachment that said if Pelosi doesn’t deliver the articles of impeachment to the Senate, then the House process has not been completed and therefore Trump has technically not been impeached. But they also brought up another tact McConnell can take. And that is to go forward with the trial. Even if the articles never get delivered. He should invite Pelosi to deliver the articles and send over her managers and make the trial completely open to the House to participate in. Apparently, there is nothing that says the articles have to be delivered to the Senate in order for the senate to have the trial. The President wants his day in court so he is acquitted.

Yeah, McConnell invoked Uncle Remus' Br'er Rabbit, referring to the "brier patch". 

"Oh no!  Don't hold onto those Articles of Impeachment, Ms. Pelosi!  That's the last thing we'd ever want you to do!"

 

Based on my understanding of the Nixon situation, he was never officially impeached, because the House didn't deliver the articles they drafted to the Senate, either.  In fact, they stopped the process 2 weeks after Nixon announced his resignation which prevented the full House from voting on the articles.

This is like a prosecutor not filing charges after a grand jury votes to indict a suspect.  He's not indicted until the charges are filed with the court. 

In the Trump case, the Senate is the court, Pelosi is the prosecutor, and the House is the grand jury.

That's how I see it, anyway.

What I find interesting is that the constitutional lawyers all seem to agree that Pelosi has not completed the House’s impeachment process by not transmitting the articles to the Senate. And that until she does, Trump is not impeached. Those who are merely just lawyers seem to think it doesn’t matter if she transmits the articles or not, he is impeached. It is so hard to get most of the constitutional lawyers to all agree. Especially considering the bias in DC seems to influence their interpretation of the constitution. An opinion piece on Fox News today theorized Pelosi is doing this on purpose just to make Trump mad. If true, she is doing a good job. Trump is a proud man. He feels this is a black mark on his presidency. Which is why he wants his day in court and get an acquittal. Then I heard on the radio on the way home that Pelosi extended an invitation to Trump to give the State of the Union Address in the House this year. Go figure. [/facepalm]

Don’t if this is real or not, but...

That letter is a fake.

But this one is real .....

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Letter-from-President-Trump-final.pdf

Pelosi:  I'm not going to deliver the articles of impeachment to the Senate until I'm satisfied the trial process will be fair.

McConnell:  No problem.  We have better things to do.

Trump:  Thanks for proving what a sham the entire inquiry was.


So, Nancy thinks she gets to dictate to the Senate majority leader how to run their Constitutionally directed impeachment hearings?  LOL!  Maybe she didn't read far enough ahead to realize she would have to let the Senate try the case?  "We have to impeach President Trump before we decide what to do after the House votes on it."

I must have missed the part of the House hearings where Nancy let McConnell tell her what to do.

It could be political angling. By not sending it through to the senate then there is never a trial and Trump never gets to call his witnesses or make his arguments.

The Constitution is clear.

Impeachment is a process run by CONGRESS -- i.e. BOTH CHAMBERS.

It is not a "whim" the House can use to smear their political foes without at least the most basic of evidence and facts to see it through to a trial.

The HOUSE passed the articles of impeachment.  Now the speaker is abusing her power by overriding the legitimate (albeit partisan) vote of the House of Representatives.

The SENATE was created to ensure the HOUSE did not abuse its power.  The founders were afraid a Congress of only representatives could do anything they wished, even subvert the Constitution, unless there was a Senate designed to protect the nation and the Constitution.  That's why there are 2 Senators from each state.  They do not represent the "will of the people" as the House does.  They are a "stop gap measure" to oversee the bills and resolutions passed in the House.

I'm sure Nancy has political reasons for her actions, but at some point, she and her party will need to show their hands when McConnell calls their bluff.

It could be political angling. By not sending it through to the senate then there is never a trial and Trump never gets to call his witnesses or make his arguments.

Impeachment votes have always been partisan. In the history of presidential impeachments no person of the same party of the president has ever voted for impeachment.

Mitch Moconnell has already said he won't be an impartial juror even though the oath he will have to take says he will be one so there is reason for Nancy to not trust the Senate to do their job properly. McConnell hardly has any high ground over Nancy if he is refusing to do his job correctly either.

Personally I don't agree with a decision to withhold transferring it to the house. I don't know if that play will work well for them but on principle I think she should send it to the senate.

The Republican controlled House of Representatives decided with a bipartisan vote of 258–176 (31 Democrats joined Republicans)
to commence impeachment proceedings against Clinton on October 8, 1998.

Although proceedings were delayed due to the bombing of Iraq, on the passage of H. Res. 611, Clinton was impeached by the
House of Representatives on December 19, 1998 on grounds of perjury to a grand jury (by a 228–206 vote; 223-5 R, 5-200 D,
0-1 independent)[26] and obstruction of justice (by a 221–212 vote; 216-12 R, 5-199 D, 0-1 independent).[27] Two other
articles of impeachment failed—a second count of perjury in the Jones case (by a 205–229 vote)[28] and one accusing Clinton
of abuse of power (by a 148–285 vote).[29] Clinton thus became the second U.S. president to be impeached;[30][31] the first was
President Andrew Johnson, who was impeached in 1868. He is also the third president against whom articles of impeachment have
been brought before the full House (the second having been Richard Nixon in 1974).

1) Impeachment votes have always been partisan.

2 Personally I don't agree with a decision to withhold transferring it to the house. I don't know if that play will work well for them but on principle I think she should send it to the senate.

That’s one of the biggest issues of this recent proceedings. Look up the history of precious proceedings. The strictly partisan angle is huge...