#Nancy Pelosi has admitted to smear tactics

[ms-boogie-man]

Umm…

… I think at this point, you are either a criminal, a patriot, or a stooge

Enough evidence has been shown and proven by we constitutionalists. You are either going to use the brains God gave you, or you are going to remain deluded and in denial of truth. Over the last 23 years, 85% of America has awakened to at least some of the truth re: how criminals in our government are trying to deceive us and destroy our constitutional republic. The 15% or so who wish to avoid truth are operating on ego. Every war or other variety of dispute you have ever heard of was started by, funded by, and profited from by global banking cartels. These same cartels own 97% of our government, and President Donald John Trump is not one whom they own … and I will leave it there yo

Angie/Maddie🦇❥✝︎🇺🇸

[rjzimmerman]

A couple of days ago, I posted a link to a Washington Post Op-Ed authored by constitutional scholar, Laurence Tribe, who is a professor at Harvard Law School. In that piece, Mr. Tribe suggested that the House withhold sending the Articles of Impeachment to the Senate, for the following reasons (excerpt from the Op-Ed):

Such an approach could have both tactical and substantive benefits. As a tactical matter, it could strengthen Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer’s (D-N.Y.) hand in bargaining over trial rules with McConnell because of McConnell’s and Trump’s urgent desire to get this whole business behind them. On a substantive level, it would be justified to withhold going forward with a Senate trial. Under the current circumstances, such a proceeding would fail to render a meaningful verdict of acquittal. It would also fail to inform the public, which has the right to know the truth about the conduct of its president.

Consider the case of a prosecutor armed with a grand jury indictment who learns that the fix is in and that the jury poised to consider the case is about to violate its oath to do impartial justice. In that situation, the prosecutor is under no affirmative legal obligation to go forward until the problem is cured and a fair trial possible. So, too, the House, whose historical role is to prosecute articles of impeachment in the Senate after exercising its “sole” power to impeach, is under no affirmative constitutional obligation to do so instantly. That is especially true when the majority leader has made clear that he is, for all practical purposes, a member of the defense team.

This New York Times story tells us that the leaders of the House are considering the approach suggested by Mr. Tribe. Yesterday evening, after the House voted to impeach trump, Nancy Pelosi had this to say, excerpted from a Politico story:

Speaker Nancy Pelosi refused to commit Wednesday to delivering articles of impeachment to the Senate, citing concerns about an unfair trial on removing President Donald Trump from office.

Senior Democratic aides said the House was “very unlikely” to take the steps necessary to send the articles to the Senate until at least early January, a delay of at least two weeks and perhaps longer.

“So far we haven’t seen anything that looks fair to us,” Pelosi told reporters at a news conference just moments after the House charged Trump with abuse of power and obstructing congressional investigations. “That would’ve been our intention, but we’ll see what happens over there.”

This New York Times story informs us that Representative James E. Clyburn, Democrat of South Carolina, agrees with this approach. Excerpt:

The morning after the House impeached Mr. Trump nearly along party lines, Representative James E. Clyburn, Democrat of South Carolina, said he was willing to wait “as long as it takes” to transmit the two impeachment articles approved Wednesday night. The House charged Mr. Trump with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress related to his campaign to pressure Ukraine to smear Democratic rivals.

“Until we can get some assurances from the majority leader that he is going to allow for a fair and impartial and trial to take place, we would be crazy to walk in there knowing he has set up a kangaroo court,” Mr. Clyburn said Thursday morning on CNN, referring to Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the majority leader.

This maneuver will most likely make the process uglier and more disturbing. Of course, the republicans are doing their repulsive spin game. House Minority Leader kevin mccarthy said the following (from the Washington Post):

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Thursday said Pelosi is “admitting defeat” by not sending the articles of impeachment approved by the House over to the Senate.

At his weekly news conference, McCarthy suggested that Pelosi will not send the articles to the other chamber because “she knows this outcome is not good” and that “the facts are not there.”

“Now we have the own speaker of the House, who is so embarrassed that she admits the failure of this impeachment that she will not even send it to the Senate — so embarrassed that I watched in her press conference that she wouldn’t even take your questions,” McCarthy said. “That is not a good legacy to have. She’s admitting defeat by not sending it.”

McConnell said the following (from that same Washington Post story):

McConnell told reporters that it’s “fine with us” if Pelosi decides not to transmit articles of impeachment, averting a Senate trial of Trump.

“If the speaker wants to hold on to them, that’s fine with us,” the Republican Senate leader said.

Earlier, McConnell scoffed at the notion that Democrats could gain leverage by delaying the transmittal of the articles and told reporters that he is “not anxious” to hold a Senate trial.

“It’s beyond me how the Speaker and Democratic Leader in the Senate think withholding the articles of impeachment and not sending them over gives them leverage,” McConnell told reporters in a hallway of the Capitol. “Frankly, I’m not anxious to have the trial … If [Pelosi] thinks her case is so weak she doesn’t want to send it over, throw me into that brier patch.”