Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell are largely making the impeachment process up as they go along, and the nation is watching the raw exercise of power without guardrails
That’s pretty much everything the Constitution has to say about the impeachment process. And because there have been just two impeachments prior to this week — Andrew Johnson’s in 1868 and Bill Clinton’s in 1998 — the precedents lawmakers are eyeing are paper-thin, flexible and built for different eras and alleged “high crimes." Another first: the Trump impeachment is taking place under a divided Congress, with one party in control of the House and the other running the Senate.
Pelosi alluded to that separate resolution during her press conference Thursday. "There is a bill made in order by the Rules Committee that we can call up at any time, in order to send it over to the Senate and to have the provisions in there to pay for the impeachment," she said. "And then, the next step, whatever you want to call it, the trial. That is where you put the managers.
“It was definitely the right thing to do knowing you were sending it to what looked like ... an unfair trial,” said Sen. Joe Manchin . “So if she can help us get a fair trial that’s what we want to do.”
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