Pelosi told reporters on Thursday that she is in no rush to formally transmit to the Senate the articles of impeachment her party in the House had just approved.
1) After impeaching Trump for supposed obstruction of House, Pelosi moves to obstruct the Senate Pelosi said she'll wait to send over the articles until she finds out how the Senate will conduct the trial, which looks a lot like obstructing the Senate, given that the Constitution clearly states that the Senate has "The sole power to try all [i]mpeachments." The Constitutional process for impeachment is that the House impeaches and the Senate holds a trial to test the quality of the accusations and the guilt or innocence of the accused.
If Trump, asserting constitutional privilege as the head of the executive branch, has to be quickly removed from office because he's not providing a single chamber of Congress what it wants, Pelosi is obstructing the Senate by asserting a privilege to not formally transmit the articles of impeachment to the Senate for trial, and abusing her power by demanding authority that under the Constitution belongs to the Senate, not the Speaker of the House.
Plus, committees in the Senate can handle investigations and throw cold water on the Democrats' impeachment narrative even without formally receiving the articles from the House.
If House Democrats had done their job properly and brought real articles of impeachment to a vote, they wouldn't just have some Republican support, they could proudly deliver those articles of impeachment with a bow on the same day they voted on them.
5) Refusing to transmit impeachment articles undercuts Democrats' claim that Trump is an "Urgent threat" to America Democrats' defense of their shoddy impeachment effort was that they had to rush through things in order to get Trump removed before the 2020 election.
Delaying the transmission of the articles to the Senate for even a moment, let alone weeks or months, destroys Democrats' claim about the urgent need for impeachment.
https://thefederalist.com/2019/12/19/6-reasons-pelosis-senate-obstruction-gambit-on-impeachment-articles-is-a-disaster/
1) After impeaching Trump for supposed obstruction of House, Pelosi moves to obstruct the Senate Pelosi said she'll wait to send over the articles until she finds out how the Senate will conduct the trial, which looks a lot like obstructing the Senate, given that the Constitution clearly states that the Senate has "The sole power to try all [i]mpeachments." The Constitutional process for impeachment is that the House impeaches and the Senate holds a trial to test the quality of the accusations and the guilt or innocence of the accused.
If Trump, asserting constitutional privilege as the head of the executive branch, has to be quickly removed from office because he's not providing a single chamber of Congress what it wants, Pelosi is obstructing the Senate by asserting a privilege to not formally transmit the articles of impeachment to the Senate for trial, and abusing her power by demanding authority that under the Constitution belongs to the Senate, not the Speaker of the House.
Plus, committees in the Senate can handle investigations and throw cold water on the Democrats' impeachment narrative even without formally receiving the articles from the House.
If House Democrats had done their job properly and brought real articles of impeachment to a vote, they wouldn't just have some Republican support, they could proudly deliver those articles of impeachment with a bow on the same day they voted on them.
5) Refusing to transmit impeachment articles undercuts Democrats' claim that Trump is an "Urgent threat" to America Democrats' defense of their shoddy impeachment effort was that they had to rush through things in order to get Trump removed before the 2020 election.
Delaying the transmission of the articles to the Senate for even a moment, let alone weeks or months, destroys Democrats' claim about the urgent need for impeachment.
https://thefederalist.com/2019/12/19/6-reasons-pelosis-senate-obstruction-gambit-on-impeachment-articles-is-a-disaster/
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