McConnell declares an impasse for Senate trial, says Schumer wants new rules for partisan impeachment
December 20, 2019 | Tom Tillison
House Democrats approved two articles of impeachment Wednesday night, charging President Donald Trump with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. However, in a further show of the political gamesmanship at work here, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has yet to send the articles to the U.S. Senate.
The delay is a ploy by Pelosi and her party of co-conspirators to exert leverage over how the Republican-controlled Senate proceeds, despite the U.S. Constitution clearly stating that “the Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments.â€
(With the media largely in her corner, the speaker has few limits in the tactics she chooses to pursue.)
“I’m not sure what leverage there is in refraining from sending us something we do not want,†Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said Thursday, speaking from the Senate floor.
McConnell met earlier with Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and came out of that meeting to declare an impasse.
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