Pollak: Senate Can Acquit Even If House Withholds Articles of Impeachment

By JOEL B. POLLAK, 18 Dec 2019

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) appears to be considering an idea Democrats have floated for several days of holding back the articles of impeachment to exercise leverage over the Senate and the president.

She declined formally to transmit the articles to the Senate on Wednesday evening after the House voted to impeach President Donald Trump.

Unfortunately for them, the Senate can act, regardless — and would vote to acquit.

That’s because the Constitution is absolutely clear about the Senate’s authority. Article I, Section 3 says: “The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments.”

That is all.

The Chief Justice presides over a trial involving the president, but the Senate makes the rules. And the Senate is controlled by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who regards what the House has done with contempt.

You’re in Cocaine Mitch’s court, now.

Politico outlined Democrats’ new idea, citing constitutional lawyer Laurence Tribe (but, interestingly, not the Constitution itself). Pelosi hopes to pressure McConnell into holding a “fair trial” — this, after she and her party broke every relevant House rule and precedent, and several Amendments in the Bill of Rights, all in the name of their “sole Power of Impeachment.”

They forget that a “fair trial” applies to the accused, not the accuser, and has since 1215.

Set aside, for the moment, that holding onto the articles of impeachment would contradict everything Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and the Democrats have said for weeks about the “urgency” of impeachment. They needed to stop him before he could “cheat in the next election,” we were told — that’s why the House could not wait for the courts to rule on the White House’s resistance to stop congressional subpoenas.

All of that would be exposed as a lie.

If Pelosi refuses to submit the articles of impeachment to the Senate, McConnell can convene the Senate anyway, summon the Chief Justice, and swear in the Senators as jurors. Democrats can boycott, but they can’t stop the trial.

McConnell can then propose to dismiss the charges or even hold a vote to acquit the president.

Pelosi can hide the articles of impeachment in Adam Schiff’s basement forever, and it won’t make a bit of difference.

Case closed.


https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/12/18/pollak-senate-can-acquit-even-if-house-doesnt-transmit-articles-of-impeachment-constitution/

Senate Repubs can play any games they want. Trump has been impeached. That will never go away, and the voters, not Senate Republicans, will be the ultimate jury.

Add another asterisk.

Pelosi can still bring more articles. This is just the beginning.

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For another year. Based on current polling, the dems are going to get wiped out in November. Use it while you can cause it's slipping away.

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They could still censor him.

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They are already censoring him. Facebook, google, twitter and reddit are all actively working to censor him and his followers.

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I was about to call you retarded until I saw the handle you chose to use.

Good one

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Seems I've heard that before. At any rate, why get mad at Dems in Congress for doing what the electorate elected them to do.

Republicans need to stop trying to overturn the 2018 election

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So your argument boils down to "I know you are but what am I?"


Fuck you're dumb.

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What little anger (scorn rather than anger) I have is for how the dems have turned impeachment into something akin to an angry floor speech now. If this isn't nipped in the bud, every president will get impeached if the House belongs to the other party. A sad day for the republic.

However, since I truly feel that this guarantees Trump's reelection (barring him doing something totally crazy, which is a possibility), I'll look on the bright side of another 5 years of President Donald J. Trump.

 
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> > 2018 election
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> What little anger (scorn rather than anger) I have
> is for how the dems have turned impeachment into
> something akin to an angry floor speech now. If
> this isn't nipped in the bud, every president will
> get impeached if the House belongs to the other
> party. A sad day for the republic.
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> However, since I truly feel that this guarantees
> Trump's reelection (barring him doing something
> totally crazy, which is a possibility), I'll look
> on the bright side of another 5 years of President
> Donald J. Trump.
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Hell, is that so bad? Impeach them all. Impeach everybody. I'm planning to impeach you right after I get done posting this.