{"id":38010,"date":"2020-01-19T20:32:31","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T01:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=38010"},"modified":"2020-01-19T20:32:31","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T01:32:31","slug":"an-insurance-policy-against-shenanigans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=38010","title":{"rendered":"An Insurance Policy Against Shenanigans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Breitbart<\/a> posted an article today about one of the rules that will apply in the impeachment trial of President Trump in the Senate.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is as of now including in the U.S. Senate impeachment trial rules a \u201ckill switch\u201d that effectively allows for the president\u2019s legal team to seek an immediate verdict or dismissal of the case should Democrats engage in any shenanigans like they did in the House process.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The revelation comes after the House finally late last week formally sent the Articles of Impeachment it adopted before Christmas\u2014after holding them for more than a month without transmission\u2014to the U.S. Senate, thereby triggering the start of a Senate trial. The Senate will formally commence its trial procedures in votes this coming week, and while some Republicans want to outright dismiss the charges altogether from the outset, others believe a trial should take place.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article explains:<\/p>\n

In other words, the big picture here is that it seems as though the Senate will move forward with an actual trial\u2014details on a number of fronts on that as of yet to be determined\u2014but that there will be one thing that is clear: If Schiff or the Democrats try anything untoward like they did in the House, the president and the Senate have the option to shut the whole thing down and blow it all up on them. That means Republicans hold the upper hand, and should things get crazy\u2014while there are not currently enough votes to dismiss the trial or outright off the bat acquit Trump\u2014after Democrat partisan gamesmanship there likely would be enough votes to dismiss the whole thing. Bad behavior, in a partisan way, from people such as Schiff and Nadler and other Democrats could drive more Republicans toward the motion to dismiss\u2014the kill switch\u2014if that ever becomes necessary.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

A former White House official added that including this \u201ckill switch\u201d in the resolution gives Senate Republicans the tools they need to help McConnell keep the trial on the straight and narrow.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cMcConnell has proven time and time again he is a more effective Leader than Pelosi is Speaker,\u201d the former Trump White House official told Breitbart News. \u201cThis resolution ensures the President and his team has every tool at their disposal.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The even bigger picture here is that when it comes to the Senate trial, GOP senators\u2014in particular McConnell\u2014are taking an active role in ensuring it will be fair. They are leading the way in framing this.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Vice President Mike Pence, in an exclusive interview<\/a> with Breitbart News late last week, made it clear that \u201cwhen it comes to the Senate trial, it\u2019ll be for the senators to decide [on witnesses and process], but I think the fact that you hear people talking about witnesses in the Senate just proves how weak the case underpinning the Articles of Impeachment really is.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact that we\u2019ve heard they had an open-and-shut case, that despite the fact the American people can read the transcript, see the fact the president did nothing wrong, no quid pro quo, the military aid was released,\u201d Pence added. \u201cThe American people have the facts. We heard that Congress did what the facts demanded, and now suddenly we hear Democrats saying they need more facts and they need more witnesses. My view on this is the American people see through all of this\u2014the sham investigation followed by a partisan impeachment. They\u2019re saying \u2018enough is enough.\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hopefully the Senators will act with more decorum than the members of the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Breitbart posted an article today about one of the rules that will apply in the impeachment trial of President Trump in the Senate. The article reports: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is as of now including in the U.S. Senate … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12463,10348,10331,6252,853,451,7857,734,365,711,11539],"class_list":["post-38010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-articles-of-impeachment","tag-breitbart","tag-breitbart-news","tag-breitbart-com","tag-democrats","tag-house-of-representatives","tag-impeachment","tag-mitch-mcconnell","tag-republicans","tag-senate","tag-senate-majority-leader"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38011,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38010\/revisions\/38011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}