Timing of Trump Impeachment Trial in Limbo as Pelosi Holds Out for Assurances

Written by <a href="index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userProfile&user=52637"><span class="small">Nicholas Fandos, The New York Times</span></a>

Thursday, 19 December 2019 13:53

Fandos writes: "Speaker Nancy Pelosi indicated Wednesday night that the House could indefinitely delay sending the articles of impeachment against President Trump to the Senate, leaving ambiguous the timing of a trial to decide whether to acquit him or convict and remove him from office."

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi speaks on Oct. 5, 2017, in Washington. (photo: Alex Wong/Getty)

Timing of Trump Impeachment Trial in Limbo as Pelosi Holds Out for Assurances

By Nicholas Fandos, The New York Times

19 December 19

In declining to say when she might send the articles of impeachment to the Senate, Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested she might keep them as leverage for negotiations on the rules for a trial.

peaker Nancy Pelosi indicated Wednesday night that the House could indefinitely delay sending the articles of impeachment against President Trump to the Senate, leaving ambiguous the timing of a trial to decide whether to acquit him or convict and remove him from office.

After historic nearly party-line votes to impeach Mr. Trump for two articles, abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, Ms. Pelosi told reporters that she would hold the articles back until it was clearer that the upper chamber would give the case a fair hearing. The strategy suggested she was keeping the charges as leverage in a coming negotiation over the terms of a Senate trial.

But it could leave the matter in limbo until early January, delaying the start of a trial for an unknown period of time.

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