All they need to pass that rule is to have 51 votes. My guess is, most of the republican senators would LOVE to have their votes be anonymous. That way, they could vote the cheeto out of office without risking votes from their base.

Hanging on to one article will mean that tRump is still impeached during the SOTU even if Senate acquits first article.

Bloody brilliant!

Men are always trying to out think her; I'm always amazed at their amazement.

and then wait to see what She decides. I think that's what happened when L. Tribe suggested she hold them back in the first place.

I do suspect there are limits to what Nancy Pelosi can do. But look how far we've come already - a solid, public airing of these alleged crimes with multiple investigations still underway outside Congress, and more lines of inquiry inside. I think the tide has turned, but time will tell.

This approach has some possible benefits:
• Adding new articles — specifically for violating the Emoluments Clause (of the US Constitution), and — most recently — the violation of the War Powers Act/Resolution (law);
• Continuing the “burr under the saddle” tactic that could conceivably push IMPOTUS over the edge, resulting in the invocation of Article 25, catching the RepubliCONs off-guard in an election year.

Stay tuned. Film at eleven

Nancy has to decide. (she knows what's best)

and logical:

"...In the House, Trump prevented executive branch employees from testifying, but said some of them would be able to testify in the Senate. Now that we are in the Senate, Republicans say these folks should have testified in the House. Lewis Carroll would be pleased.”

“McConnell claims he is adhering to the rules in the impeachment of President Bill Clinton,” they said. “But there’s one big difference: Clinton didn’t gag all the witnesses and documents in the House and the predecessor investigation; as a result, there was a full record before the Senate. And there were, in fact, witnesses who were deposed as part of the Senate trial nonetheless. This time, the reason this evidence wasn’t generated in the House has everything to do with the defendant in the impeachment case itself. That is the case for sending up the second article now, to put the spotlight on Trump’s obstructionism.”

“Holding the first article back and letting the second go forward would be a powerful and precise response to McConnell’s unprecedented attempts to avoid committing to a real trial,” they concluded. “It makes practical sense but also highlights what’s at stake here. Trump would be forced to undergo two impeachment trials instead of one — but that’s a fair price for him to pay for his attempts to hide evidence from the American people.”

and mobster plus illegitimate to begin with.

Pelosi thinks she has the 51 votes in the Senate to get the rules she wants. That would destroy McConnell's strategy.

By 2021, if Trump squeaks in again, they should fire up an Impeachment Article Factory and crank 'em out like bagels.

Seriously, multiple impeachments are possible here. There really is that much graft.

Think about the man’s character! There will be no Republic and no doubt he would jail members of Congress (D) that he thought obstructed his total control of our government.

And the loyal GOP to whom their first loyalty is to Trump, would justify these actions, as long as they can retain their seat at the table. Not understanding history, that they would be next.

an file charges on.

Thumbs up

Before she decided not to send the articles she met with Prof. Tribe, and listened to others like John Dean who had the suggestion/idea. Then a ton of us on DU started calling Rep. Hoyer's offices to tell him to tell Nancy to not send them and a few hours later she didn't sent them.


Should we start calling offices again?

There must be a reason she's going to send them over

....and it has been a damn good strategy.