Curious: Is anyone suggesting otherwise?
(Obviously you’re more plugged in than I am, hence the question.)
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I’m expecting nothing less than massed GOP airhorns with a vuvuzuela descant.
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My main concern is the granting of “due process” rights to Trump and his lawyers. There’s nothing in the Constitution about that when it comes to impeachment investigations or proceedings. He gets a trial in the Senate presided over the the Chief Justice of SCOTUS. Anything else is a courtesy and I hope the resolution makes that clear.
Trump will have acolytes in the House asking questions of witnesses. I assume that those same Rs will want to parade a bunch of witnesses out in public to bash Biden and the Ds as corrupt to try to plant a media “both sides” vibe into the public sphere beyond FOX News. So no witness should appear unless the committee votes to have them testify.
Another important aspect of any resolution will be that any refusal of the Trump administration to comply with subpoenas will be considered evidence of both obstruction of Congress and that such documents and truthful testimony would support any articles of impeachment.
Once Trump’s impeachment gets to the Senate, then CJ John Roberts can rule whether certain witnesses Trump wants to call can testify, and whether documents and testimony Trump withheld or prevented he must now comply with. The House also gets due process rights as well to pursue impeachment without the president obstructing it.
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Agree. I think she held out until now just to make it clear that she wasn’t going to do something just because the republicans said so, that’s why nothing happened on the return from recess.
But it’s still a good play to make, because basically every “legal” argument has been about that point, so now when she closes that loophole, their continued obstruction will be its own story, as they come up with an even more creative reason not to cooperate.
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Next up: “The entire process is unfair, partisan and a total witch hunt kangaroo court because we lost votes on what we wanted and we didn’t get all the poison pills we demanded. It’s only democracy when the GOP wins.”
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Tucker should ask her this tonight on his White Power Variety Hour.
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I don’t know what Oklahoma has to do with any of this.
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Lot of false bravado MAGAt types commenting on twitter that Pelosi caved to their ineluctable logic.
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A process for public hearings.
Ah, feel that sunshine, Republicans? That’s what you wanted, right?
Well, enjoy. Because I think it’s going to be a quite warm - perhaps even hot - November and December.
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That’s a little bit “ethnic” for the GOP. I expect they’d want to rename it a Freedom Funnel or some such.
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Yes, I assume that she must be confident that she has the votes, or she wouldn’t be doing this. I hope that it is a slam dunk.
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Yes, and that’s why.
Which is not to say the Republicans were complaining in good faith, obviously.
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Good job, Nancy, doing it on your own time and not in a knee jerk reaction to Donnie and the demands of his deplorables.
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Immediately after Dept of TrumpFixers submitted their appeal of Justice Howell’s ruling.
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Not fair! Not fair! Taking Republicans at their word is not fair!
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Infuriating…but let 'em have their delusions on this one I say. It keeps them overconfident and turns their Dunning-Krugerism up to 11.
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Process for public hearings:. Questioning by counsel first, grandstanding later
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And even after this vote, closed-door depositions can be taken as needed.
Schiff has used that part of the process to good effect.
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Or get drunk…again.
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That “Process balloon” is all they got
Nancy Has a big needle to pop it
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