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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLaurence Tribe: "It's time to stop blaming @SpeakerPelosi for delaying the Senate trial."
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Laurence Tribe ✔ @tribelaw
Its time to stop blaming @SpeakerPelosi for delaying the Senate trial. She has made clear that the only holdup is Mitch McConnells unwillingness to have his majority announce the rules that will permit a real trial to begin. Mitch, you say youve got the votes. Now PROVE IT!
7:41 AM - Jan 9, 2020
Prof Tribe!
gordianot
(15,248 posts)It must be exhausting.
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)She is spinning about 10,000 plates, quite an exceptional woman.
pbmus
(12,422 posts)calimary
(81,546 posts)CNN this morning is all over some new lets dump on Nancy thing. Accentuate the negative, eh? Why are we diverting attention away from McConnell as though hes some innocent non-combatant here?
HES the BAD GUY here!
bluestarone
(17,091 posts)Nancy knows exactly what she's doing!! I'm FULLY in her corner! Fuck Moscow mitch!
Grins
(7,243 posts)spooky3
(34,505 posts)You sure you're on the right OP?
kentuck
(111,110 posts)If so, re-type these letters to prove you are not a robot:
&$#@$&
KPN
(15,668 posts)that Tribes tweet is great but its preaching to the choir here and would have more effect presumably if read by visitors to those other sites.
Cha
(297,832 posts)don't post and run, Gina.
ripcord
(5,553 posts)Democratic Senators are starting to call for articles to be sent to the Senate.
CTyankee
(63,914 posts)Senate. Otherwise, all her hard work in the impeachment effort in the House will be for nought.
KPN
(15,668 posts)airtime to McConnell and swallowing his deceptive position about just doing what the full Senate agreed to in the Clinton impeachment. Nancy and every frigging Democrat should be loudly pointing out the distinction in the Clinton impeachment, every witness, document and other piece of evidence subpoenaed by the Special Prosecutor and the House was actually provided or appeared for testimony. Thats a big distinction!
ripcord
(5,553 posts)Jon Tester, Joe Manchin, Chris Murphy, Dianne Feinstein and Richard Blumenthal all are saying it is time to send the impeachment articles to the Senate. These people are going to be quoted far and wide in the media and with an election coming up the last thing we need is for independents too feel like this is being held up for political reasons which is going to happen if the senate democrats continue to turn on the Speaker.
KPN
(15,668 posts)Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)One of them said within 20 minutes that he "misspoke" hahaha.
kentuck
(111,110 posts)..but doesn't want to put the rules in writing and put them up for a vote.
All they need to do is vote on the rules. So she knows the "arena" she is operating within, for the American people.
Let them pass the rules so we can see what they are going to be.
spooky3
(34,505 posts)As judges. She knows the Republican senators are a lost cause.
KPN
(15,668 posts)simply say when the Speaker has a set of rules that have been voted on, she will appoint trial managers and pass the articles on for the Senate trial just like what happened on the Clinton impeachment (ast as I understand it).
dem4decades
(11,308 posts)It sounds catchy.
And everytime you say his name it reinforces he's running a coverup
Control-Z
(15,682 posts)Texin
(2,600 posts)That mofo held up advancing that nomination forward for nearly two years, thus blocking Obama's constitutionally-given power to select Supreme Court justices for nomination and consideration. All the while he kept repeating his mantra, "let the people decide who the next nominee will be" (by *electing* a new POTUS). So he got his way by remaining ramjack adamant about it. Much the same as he's doing now with the impeachment mock-trial in the senate. She should hold that nomination indefinitely. She should not allow that shit to have his way again. You'll hear him say again, "let the voters decided on who the next POTUS is" and not remove El Caudillo del Mar a-Lago until the people decide to pitch his diseased ass out. Well, I say, shame on any democrat who sides with McConnel in trying to speed up when or if Pelosi turns the Articles over for trial. She should hold them until the Earth stops spinning on its axis before allow them to be turned into a sham prop in a totally retrumplican-rigged display of contempt of the people, the constitution and our democratic republic! And shame on those Dems in the senate for trying to goose her along. Shame!
KPN
(15,668 posts)spanone
(135,907 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,279 posts)...and McConnell runs a confirmation process, Pelosi will send the articles.
Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)RVN VET71
(2,698 posts)But Speaker Nancy is stronger than her adversaries, more intelligent than any of them, and will handle this situation to the best advantage of the country (first), and the Democratic Party (second).
AncientGeezer
(2,146 posts)"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," she wrote. "I will be consulting with you at our Tuesday House Democratic Caucus meeting on how we proceed further,"
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/pelosi-prepares-send-articles-impeachment-senate-will-consult-democrats-about-n1113621