The Democrats Should Transmit the Articles of Impeachment to the Senate Without Delay
There are four main reasons this gambit should be abandoned.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi is apparently toying with the idea of refusing to transmit the newly approved articles of impeachment against Donald Trump to the Senate unless Majority Leader Mitch McConnell agrees to procedural rules that would make the proceedings a “real trial.” This is a bad idea.
I understand the frustration that produced this proposal. McConnell has unapologetically that his management of Senate proceedings will be coordinated with the White House, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s request that administration witnesses be subpoenaed, and thus baldly abandoned even the pretense that the Senate trial will provide a forum for impartial judgment. But in doing so,
