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To: Reno89519

I’m actually surprised this is on today. I though Schumer was going to bury it. But no, Rep Mark Green is delivering the articles of impeachment, reading them to the senate.


4 posted on 04/16/2024 11:47:31 AM PDT by Reno89519 (If Biden is mentally unfit to stand trial, he is mentally unfit to be president. He needs to resign.)
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To: Reno89519
Schumer will try to bury it, but he has to receive it first.

Schumer wants to use a Senate motion to dismiss. It's unheard of; the Constitution requires a trial in the Senate.

Even before Schumer can make a motion to dismiss, the Senate must first choose someone to preside over the trial, most likely the President pro tempore Patty Murray (D-WA).

Then they have to adopt the rules for the trial, most likely the same rules that have been used in the prior impeachment trial. I don't think those rules included a motion to dismiss. The Senate rules for the Clinton impeachment trial included a motion to dismiss, but it wasn't used.

-PJ

8 posted on 04/16/2024 11:58:57 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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