Laurence Tribe: "It's time to stop blaming @SpeakerPelosi for delaying the Senate trial."

[Dennis Donovan]

Link to tweet

Laurence Tribe ✔ @tribelaw

It’s time to stop blaming @SpeakerPelosi for delaying the Senate trial. She has made clear that the only holdup is Mitch McConnell’s unwillingness to have his majority announce the rules that will permit a real trial to begin. Mitch, you say you’ve got the votes. Now PROVE IT!

7:41 AM - Jan 9, 2020

Prof Tribe!

[gordianot]

1. Nancy is dealing with pure Fascism every day.

It must be exhausting.

[Dennis Donovan]

2. This is the Speaker last night nearly sprinting in the halls of the Capitol

Link to tweet

Well, definitely speedwalking.

[dewsgirl]

3. I saw this on Maddow last night, Pelosi looks stunning.

She is spinning about 10,000 plates, quite an exceptional woman.

[pbmus]

28. Like having five children...and seven pans on the stove, none burning!

[calimary]

4. THANK YOU!!!

CNN this morning is all over some new “let’s dump on Nancy” thing. Accentuate the negative, ‘eh? Why are we diverting attention away from McConnell as though he’s some innocent non-combatant here?

HE’S the BAD GUY here!

[bluestarone]

13. Thought the same thing! CNN is full of shit!

Nancy knows exactly what she's doing!! I'm FULLY in her corner! Fuck Moscow mitch!

[Grins]

5. Why is this here? Post it on Townhall! Or Breitbatrt. Or Freeperville... NM

[spooky3]

9. Did you misread the OP? Nt

[Dennis Donovan]

10. Huh?

You sure you're on the right OP?

[kentuck]

12. Is this a real person?

If so, re-type these letters to prove you are not a robot:

&$#@$&

[ehrnst]

14. ????

[KPN]

18. I can only hope your intended sentiment is

that Tribe’s tweet is great but it’s preaching to the choir here and would have more effect presumably if read by visitors to those other sites.

[Cha]

24. What are you talking about?.. Please Explain yourself..

don't post and run, Gina.

[ripcord]

6. I don't know how long she can hold off

Democratic Senators are starting to call for articles to be sent to the Senate.

[CTyankee]

7. I'm sure she will once she feels satisfied there is a good, solid strategy going forward in the

Senate. Otherwise, all her hard work in the impeachment effort in the House will be for nought.

[KPN]

19. That's because of the media giving so much

airtime to McConnell and swallowing his deceptive position about just doing what the full Senate agreed to in the Clinton impeachment. Nancy and every frigging Democrat should be loudly pointing out the distinction — in the Clinton impeachment, every witness, document and other piece of evidence subpoenaed by the Special Prosecutor and the House was actually provided or appeared for testimony. That’s a big distinction!

[ripcord]

21. The problem is that she is losing the support of democratic senators

Jon Tester, Joe Manchin, Chris Murphy, Dianne Feinstein and Richard Blumenthal all are saying it is time to send the impeachment articles to the Senate. These people are going to be quoted far and wide in the media and with an election coming up the last thing we need is for independents too feel like this is being held up for political reasons which is going to happen if the senate democrats continue to turn on the Speaker.

[KPN]

22. Calls into question Schumer's competence to me.

[Grasswire2]

27. they walked that back today

One of them said within 20 minutes that he "misspoke" hahaha.

[kentuck]

8. Mitch probably has a verbal agreement from most of his caucus...

..but doesn't want to put the rules in writing and put them up for a vote.

All they need to do is vote on the rules. So she knows the "arena" she is operating within, for the American people.

Let them pass the rules so we can see what they are going to be.

[spooky3]

11. Agree. The Speaker is focused on the American people

As judges. She knows the Republican senators are a lost cause.

[KPN]

23. I agree. Let them vote on the rules. She should

simply say when the Speaker has a set of rules that have been voted on, she will appoint trial managers and pass the articles on for the Senate trial — just like what happened on the Clinton impeachment (ast as I understand it).

[dem4decades]

25. Can we call him Mitch McCoverup from now on?

It sounds catchy.

And everytime you say his name it reinforces he's running a coverup

[Control-Z]

29. Moscow Mitch McCoverup n/t

[Texin]

15. She and everyone else need to remember how McConnell stonewalled Garland's nomination.

That mofo held up advancing that nomination forward for nearly two years, thus blocking Obama's constitutionally-given power to select Supreme Court justices for nomination and consideration. All the while he kept repeating his mantra, "let the people decide who the next nominee will be" (by *electing* a new POTUS). So he got his way by remaining ramjack adamant about it. Much the same as he's doing now with the impeachment mock-trial in the senate. She should hold that nomination indefinitely. She should not allow that shit to have his way again. You'll hear him say again, "let the voters decided on who the next POTUS is" and not remove El Caudillo del Mar a-Lago until the people decide to pitch his diseased ass out. Well, I say, shame on any democrat who sides with McConnel in trying to speed up when or if Pelosi turns the Articles over for trial. She should hold them until the Earth stops spinning on its axis before allow them to be turned into a sham prop in a totally retrumplican-rigged display of contempt of the people, the constitution and our democratic republic! And shame on those Dems in the senate for trying to goose her along. Shame!

[KPN]

16. Hear hear. Thank you Laurence Tribe!

[spanone]

17. Amen, Mr. Tribe.

[ProfessorGAC]

20. When DOLTUS Nominates Garland for SC...

...and McConnell runs a confirmation process, Pelosi will send the articles.

[Kurt V.]

26. rah rah

[RVN VET71]

30. But our media think there are fine people on both sides.

But Speaker Nancy is stronger than her adversaries, more intelligent than any of them, and will handle this situation to the best advantage of the country (first), and the Democratic Party (second).

[AncientGeezer]

31. Again..Tribe jumps the gun....

"I have asked Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler to be prepared to bring to the floor next week a resolution to appoint managers and transmit articles of impeachment to the Senate," she wrote. "I will be consulting with you at our Tuesday House Democratic Caucus meeting on how we proceed further,"
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/pelosi-prepares-send-articles-impeachment-senate-will-consult-democrats-about-n1113621