Nancy Pelosi on Trump impeachment: 'I have a spring in my step'

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has thrown a wrench into that constitutional process by announcing that she will most likely not send the articles of impeachment to the Senate until she is satisfied that the Senate will conduct what she determines to be a “fair” trial.

The word “unprecedented” gets thrown about in Washington all the time, but this really is something else.



Mark Levin explained this morning that Pelosi refusing to send the articles of impeachment to the Senate, effectively obstructing impeachment, is brazenly unconstitutional. He explains what McConnell should do…

1. Nancy Pelosi was apparently advised by leftwing Harvard law professor Lawrence Tribe to delay sending the impeachment to the Senate.  So she’s unilaterally sitting on the impeachment. This is another brazen unconstitutional act.

— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) December 19, 2019

2. Here’s what Mitch McConnell and the Senate Republicans must do in response:  The Senate has the sole power under the Constitution to adjudicate an impeachment.  Therefore, Pelosi is attempting to obstruct the Senate’s power to act on its constitutional authority.

— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) December 19, 2019

3. McConnell should immediately put an end to this and declare the impeachment null and void as the speaker has failed to complete the impeachment process by timely sending it to the Senate for adjudication.

— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) December 19, 2019

4. McConnell has no less authority to unilaterally make such a decision than Pelosi does to withhold the administrative notification of an impeachment to the Senate either indefinitely or w/ conditions. Her effort to cripple the presidency & blackmail the Senate must be defeated.

— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) December 19, 2019

I hope that McConnell has the backbone to do something like this but given his actions in the past, I doubt he’ll declare it null and void as Levin suggests. I expect he’ll probably do some kind of waiting game of his own.