Nancy Pelosi hinted at delaying Trump's Senate trial. Mitch McConnell responded, “I’m in no hurry.” ed_kilgore writes on this game of chicken over impeachment
Photo: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images Ever since Democratic complaints arose about Mitch McConnell’s adamant refusal to call witnesses in a Senate impeachment trial, and his pledge to be in “total coordination” with Trump’s lawyers, the idea has circulated that Nancy Pelosi could put pressure on McConnell to change his partisan ways by withholding the articles of impeachment the House passed on Wednesday and delaying Senate action.
But the second question is whether McConnell would rise to the bait and sit down with Chuck Schumer to devise a full and “fair” Senate impeachment trial. And the initial, mocking, reaction of Senate Republicans suggests they’d just as soon call Pelosi’s bluff and let hell freeze over before holding a trial at all, as reported in The Hill:
McConnell, asked by a Washington Examiner reporter about a potential delay, similarly shrugged it off, saying, “I’m in no hurry.”To be clear, if Pelosi sits on the articles and McConnell says “fine,” and they remain at loggerheads, in theory Trump could leave office in 2021 or 2025 or whenever he’s forced to vacate the White House — untried. There’s no real Democratic leverage unless it produces some scenario Trump or Republicans fear.
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