Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on Thursday left the door open to waiting for courts to enforce subpoenas of witnesses for a Senate impeachment trial if need be.
HmmmmmâŚis it just me or does it sound like Nancy and Chuck have cooked something up together?
Oh, dear! Schumer is considering the possibility of contemplating convening a committee that will take under advisement the idea of exploring the pros/cons of using the courts with regard to witnesses. Such bold, decisive actions are the hallmark of our Dem leadership.
When the GOP kicks sand in your face, just take it and say, âThank you, sir, may I have another?â
No witnesses, no phoney âacquittalâ (itâs just political nullification after all). I like this plan. 
Schumer should camp out at CNN and MSNBC and appear on every available show to say:
âThe Republicans have said the House process should have included first-hand witnesses. I agree. Therefore Iâm asking Speaker Pelosi to hold off on sending the articles of impeachment forward until the Supreme Court rules next June on whether or not Administration witnesses must testify. We think they will rule that Mr. Bolton, Mr. McGahn, Mr. Pompeo, Mr. Mulvaney, and others must provide testimony and documents to Congress. We look forward to the impeachment trial being resumed next July and August.â
Rinse. Repeat.
I donât believe the rules of impeachment prohibit the House from holding additional hearings next summer. Might even gather enough testimony to craft additional articles of impeachment. 
Beautiful. Schumer and Pelosi singing in harmony.
If Republicans want to claim the House rushed Impeachment, surely theyâll want to wait for the court cases to be resolved to bring in first-hand witnesses. No? Oh, thatâs right. McConnell wants to sweep it all under the rug. He really has a bad hand to play here and Dems know it.
Great ideaâŚ
âYou know guys, we are following Professor Turleyâs advise and we wonât send the Articles of Impeachment to the Senate until the Supreme Court settles the matter of the witnessesâŚâ
Meanwhile plaster every available Billboard in battleground states with a picture of a crazy looking Trump (there are many to choose) with a legend âIMPEACHED FOR ABUSE OF POWER & OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICEâ.
Iâll take those two over Yertle and Miss Lindsey any day of the week.
Oh well. Maybe they will get three just so the GOP senate could say they were cooperating.
Just repeating myself here, but I think McConnell will have the votes to do things his way, and that will mean no witnesses. He wonât want the WH inner circle to testify, because theyâre not going to perjure themselves and lie about how it went down. Not with someone like Senator Harris doing cross-examination.
Pompeo, Mulvaney, and Bolton (probably) would just sit there and claim executive privilege to avoid answering questions, which still makes Trump look guilty as hell. If he was innocent, they would defend him. So I predict McConnell wonât allow witnesses at all, to avoid this.
Schumer is still right to keep shining a light on how the WH is refusing to cooperate, which they would be doing if Trump is innocent of the charges.
And Lindz seems to be a touch nervous about old Rudy.
If there are no witnesses called, then I hope the next year is a full on blitz by Democrats at the âBUT HER EMAILS!!â level of volume about the sham GOP and Moscow Mitch Senate impeachment trial.
Lead.
Thanks, Comrade Eeyore.
If Schumer asks for witnesses, Moscow Mitch has to have a vote on the question.
Itâs one of the rules.
It will be difficult for endangered GOP Senators to vote against hearing from people with first-hand knowledge of the issues and then claim that they did the right thing.
By his very nature, Lindsey is ânervous.â
Right, but the R Senator majority can make the same calculation McConnell will make, that having the WH inner circle testify would result in either them telling the truth and sinking Trump, or lying with the chance of it being exposed, or staying schtum under executive privilege which makes it obvious they canât defend Trumpâs actions.
For Republicans â even someone like Susan Concerned Collins â itâs just bad news all around for the WH inner circle to testify. So I donât think it will be hard for McConnell to wrangle a majority vote to quash it.
You misspelled âhomosexual.â
I think Bolton is not a fool and if he is anything it is mean and spiteful. He wants a piece of Trump, and all the court order stuff I think is just posturing. I think he saw that it would play out this way in the house (it was a fairly safe bet), and he decided to wait for the Senate where there may be higher stakes. I think if they donât call him he is going to do a press conference. He has made it clear he has something juicy. I donât think he is bluffing. Itâs fun when they eat their own.
I should have added âself-loathing.â