Moscow Mitch has openly admitted he intends to work with the president's lawyers for a predetermined outcome. That is a hallmark of a Kangaroo Court....As a general rule, (click here) a kangaroo court is any proceeding that attempts to imitate a fair trial or hearing without the usual due process safeguards including the right to call witnesses, the right to confront your accuser and a hearing before a fair and impartial judge. Kangaroo court proceedings are usually a sham carried out without legal authority in which the outcome has been predetermined without regard to the evidence or to the guilt or innocence of the accused....
The US House Speaker really has no option to send the Articles of Impeachment without the reassurances it will be provided a fair hearing. There is no such reassurances coming at all from Moscow Mitch.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi is correct in REASSURING the American people every measure of precaution is being leveraged to insure a fair and honest hearing of the Impeachment of Donald J. Trump. It would be remiss of the Speaker to simply expect to have the Articles voted down by a partisan Senate. She is protecting the USA Constitution from such corrupt abuses by waiting for reasonable rules to be handed down for the hearing from the US Senate. She has to provide the best Congresspersons to bring the Articles before the US Senate and that requires an understanding of the rules surrounding that presentation.
There is no current precedent. This impeachment did not stem from a Special Prosecutor. This impeachment was conducted by the US House. There is no precedent for the US Senate hearing. Moscow Mitch needs to SERIOUSLY set down rules with Minority Leader Schumer. This hearing is not about politics, it is about the Constitutional process of the USA Constitution. Dangerous and glib precedent can grow out of these Senate Rules that can taint the future and the high regard of the process laid out in the USA Constitution. There is an oath and the USA Constitution demands a fair hearing.
Moscow Mitch's rantings is about politics not the well being and esteem of the USA Constitution.
January 7, 2020
By John Wagner and Colby Itkowitz
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) (click here) accused House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) of being “contemptuous of the American people” Tuesday as tensions flared over the continuing impasse on President Trump’s impeachment trial.
Pelosi has held on to the articles of impeachment as Democrats seek guarantees about the scope of a trial in the Senate, including whether witnesses will be allowed. Earlier Tuesday, Trump highlighted objections to the prospect of testimony from former national security adviser John Bolton, as Bolton’s announcement that he is prepared to appear at a trial continued to roil Capitol Hill.
The crux of the Democrats’ case is the allegation that Trump tried to leverage a White House meeting and military aid, sought by Ukraine to combat Russian military aggression, to pressure Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to launch an investigation of former vice president Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden, as well as a probe of an unfounded theory that Kyiv conspired with Democrats to interfere in the 2016 presidential election....
