Thursday, December 19, 2019

Trump Attorney Shoots Down Potential House Impeachment Delay: ‘Senate Will Determine Trial’

 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announces the passage of the first article of impeachment, abuse of power, against President Donald Trump by the House of Representatives at the Capitol in Washington, on Dec. 18, 2019. (House Television via AP)

President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, Jay Sekulow, said that the House doesn’t have power over the Senate trial for impeachment after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) demurred on when she would send over the House’s two articles of impeachment against Trump.

In a radio show interview, Sekulow said (starting at around the 21-minute mark) that “[Pelosi] thinks she’s going to create some kind of Constitutional crisis … by doing a parliamentary move to not have the managers appointed and not presenting those articles of impeachment to the Senate,” he said.

Pelosi, however, will fail because the U.S. Constitution “doesn’t talk about managers” and “doesn’t discuss her delivery methods.”

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