Originally appeared at ZeroHedge
Update (1900ET): In a letter sent late on Sunday, Nancy Pelosi confirmed that the coming week will be focused entirely on removing Trump out of office, when she informed colleagues that the House will pass a resolution calling on Pence to invoke the 25th amendment. This will be followed by impeachment.
Her full letter below:
Dear Democratic Colleague,
On this Sunday, as we pray that God will continue to Bless America, I write to inform you of our next actions, which will be made with the great solemnity that this moment requires.
I want to call to your immediate attention the action to be taken tomorrow morning, when Majority Leader Hoyer will request Unanimous Consent to bring up the Raskin resolution. This resolution calls on the Vice President to convene and mobilize the Cabinet to activate the 25th Amendment to declare the President incapable of executing the duties of his office, after which the Vice President would immediately exercise powers as acting President. The text of the resolution can be found here.
If we do not receive Unanimous Consent, this legislation is planned to be brought up on the Floor the following day. We are calling on the Vice President to respond within 24 hours.
Next, we will proceed with bringing impeachment legislation to the Floor.
In protecting our Constitution and our Democracy, we will act with urgency, because this President represents an imminent threat to both. As the days go by, the horror of the ongoing assault on our democracy perpetrated by this President is intensified and so is the immediate need for action.
I look forward to our Caucus call tomorrow. I am grateful to all Members for the suggestions, observations and input that you have been sending. Your views on the 25th Amendment, 14th Amendment Section 3 and impeachment are valued as we continue. I am answering your communications in chronological order and will do so into the night.
Thank you for your patriotism.
Prayerfully,
In other words, the second impeachment of Trump will begin on Tuesday if Pence refuses to invoke the 25th amendment, for which Pelosi has given the VP 24 hours.
NEW: Nancy Pelosi confirms that the (second) impeachment is on. pic.twitter.com/532Ipnpvo3
— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) January 10, 2021
There are just a few caveats: as the Constitution Center explains, to forcibly wrest power from Trump, Vice President Mike Pence would have to be on board, according to the text of the amendment. Pence would also need either a majority of Trump’s Cabinet officials to agree the President is unfit for office and temporarily seize power from him. Neither is very likely.
Next, Trump could dispute their move with a letter to Congress. Pence and the Cabinet would then have four days to dispute him, Congress would then vote — it requires a two-thirds supermajority, usually 67 senators and 290 House members to permanently remove him. This too is unlikely.
Congress could also appoint its own body to review the President’s fitness instead of the Cabinet. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, during the last Congress, introduced a bill to create a congressional body for this purpose, but it was not signed into law.
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Democratic efforts to impeach President Trump for a second time are well underway, with a senior Democratic lawmaker telling Bloomberg that a House vote on articles of impeachment could come as soon as Tuesday, which would then be held for several months before they send them to the Senate in order to avoid triggering an immediate trial.
According to House Majority Whip James Clyburn, Democrats are “working hard” on an article of impeachment which demonstrates that Trump is “unqualified to be president.”
“I think that will come probably Tuesday and maybe Wednesday,” Clyburn told “Fox News Sunday.”
Meanwhile, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gave Trump an ultimatum last week; resign immediately, or face impeachment 2.0 for encouraging supporters to march on Capitol Hill last Wednesday – when a mostly peaceful protest against the counting of Electoral College votes turned into what the left is calling an ‘insurrection’ after law enforcement oddly opened the doors to the building, allowing protesters to ‘storm’ the Capitol.
Capitol police open doors for the protestors. They stand aside and invite them inside. pic.twitter.com/OnSd3KGzz5
— Christina Bobb (@christina_bobb) January 8, 2021
According to Bloomberg, Pelosi is moving cautiously despite internal pressure from her caucus to punish Trump – while President-elect Joe Biden has made clear that he isn’t interested in a Trump impeachment sideshow while his administration is trying to focus on their agenda. Pelosi has told lawmakers to be “prepared to return to Washington” this week for a potential impeachment vote or some other type of formal response to Trump’s alleged role in encouraging the breach on Capitol hill that left five people dead (despite the fact that he told supporters to peacefully assemble and to peacefully leave following the incident).
According to Clyburn, however, any successful impeachment in the House could be held for 100 days or more to avoid upstaging Biden.
“Let’s give President-elect Biden the 100 days he needs to get his agenda off and running, and maybe we’ll send the articles some time after that,” he said.
At least 195 House Democrats have signed on to one of the impeachment articles, and some Republicans have said they believe Trump conduct is impeachable, although they question how the process would play out with less than two weeks left in his term.
In a letter to fellow Democrats Saturday, Pelosi stopped short of saying she intended to move forward with impeachment or another process aimed at removing Trump from office before his term expires on Jan. 20, yet she insisted that he be held responsible in some fashion. –Bloomberg
“It is absolutely essential that those who perpetrated the assault on our democracy be held accountable,” said Pelosi in a Saturday letter. “There must be a recognition that this desecration was instigated by the president.”
Meanwhile, a small group of House Republicans led by Colorado Rep. Ken Buck are trying to encourage Biden to persuade Pelosi to back off a Trump impeachment – warning in a Saturday letter that doing so would inflame Trump supporters and derail Biden’s plans to ‘unify the country’ (as social media giants engage in politically-driven cancel spree against Trump and his supporters).
As far as Trump leaving office now? Biden suggests letting the presidential transition occur so his administration can “get our agenda moving as quickly as we can.”
“It’s important we get on with the business getting him out of office. The quickest way that that will happen is us being sworn in on the 20th,” Biden said during a Wilmington, Delaware press conference last week. “I am focused now on us taking control as president and vice president on the 20th, and to get our agenda moving as quickly as we can.”
They stupid or what?
Both I suspect :)
No, theyre arrogant sociopathic lunatics, and far from stupid. It’s a blunder to underestimate them.
They are powerful and arrogant but far from smart. It’s a blunder to think they’re smart. The last elections are proof of brainless brute force. By the end of the day they realized they have to steal a lot more. Because they are stupid. Smart guys always know where they stand, how much they have to steal.
The ultimate vindictive clown show. I really do hope Trump has signed the insurrection Act so the perversions of these people can be exposed.
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Its typical example in text for why You often loose. Yöu dont know Your enemy and even talk it down.
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Fuck off and peddle Jew coins up your arse. I have flagged your dumbarse.
We know flags https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/32885870f66c052982d0666863c293c8693c05c364a7acc02159f3fe91d4a061.jpg
Me too.
Pessimist is a good informed optimist.
Yet another pathetic and ultimately futile vendetta by that plastic sow Pelosi. She so desperately wants to use any excuse to remove Trump in order to increase her own credentials among her retarded boomer-liberal supporters. It didn’t work the first time skeletor, it’s not gonna work this time either. Neither Pence or even Biden are interested in your petty vendetta.
I dont think its like that at all.
You just as routine dont like anything they do in USA and hope they collapse or decline to Your low level.
Its as if You not even know she is not liberal and for years has been number one in the house of representatives.
Pence shoudl be arrested long time ago. I think Biden is clever. If he has to glue USA at least some, its a very bad idea he should swing the hammer.
The ones attacked are the House of Representatives and its public elected members.
They have completely lost their minds!
The moron did enough damage and I was expecting another 4 years of complete mayhem, but the deep state has other plans.
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More as if the deep state lost the election
Yes, unfuckingbelievable mayhem, of Biblical proportion.
“The only God in amerika is money”. Malcolm X God has blessed baloney; Pelosi has accumulated more than 100$million since her corrupt insider trading in govt the dim conception of governance is socialism for the rich, feudalism for the peasants
U.S. makes China look like a beacon of freedom.
Even DPRK is a island of stability and peace.
Gotta give it to the dprk!corona,yike’yike’yike’yike heads back south.
In corners its highly correct, but it is corners.
The Chinese has taken in much better economical systems in and its doing well, because we see they even very fast has riched to have a very big growing middle class.
I dont know how they copuld go from Chairman Mao to this, but I see its easy if You can copy already invented systems from the west and then add Your own.
So I feel fine those many chinese at least dont need material things as they did.
In a way,I see it more like the beacon of democracy.
He also among other things told the medie is the message in itself. We certainly see it by Your dirt and fx Trump.
Its corréct many medias are owned by boig private companies by rich Monguls, but they are not owned by and controlled by the state.
You also can be shareholder in it.
I do agree in several things by Malcom X as well as others telling main probpems in USA and other parts of the world should be solved better and the changes to the better is too slow.
The new Governess seemes to be more mixted and I have hopes for at least smaller changes.
When You fx write down to include the LGBTs better, You are a dirty part of the problems too. Again I only see critisismé and no proposals for any changes.
I and many others do also writng to citicens in USA and about the mistakes and how some of those can be changed.
I wrote it for USA ysterday again. USA has declined their education system by not investing. By that they dont get enough Middleclasser and by that more brains to the middleclass and high educated sectors.
They could make a better taxsystem taking more money from the rich – or as we do in Denmark – those money never reach them because we give more money to the middleclass in the paychecks – and then tax them. Its relative small amount, but they and we are many.
In the otrher hand some of the poor parts just as in Russia and Arabistan has no traditions for education and mainly live as very poor partly chosen by themself. In Denmark wWe dont see the poor working less. We are among the ones, where the most % actally works. We think its because they are included and also by their jobs get aq lot of free and almnost free stuff.
Its simply incorrect people getting welfare becomes permanent lazy bum parasites. But in the emplyed USA they think those people are like that.
We do have lazybums too, but even the poor parts at least contribute as much as they can – and we pay the rest for them. And they are included and by that they have hopes and enough climb the latter by more education, hard work and are rewarded.
Not a problem brothers all is well….
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I didnt know family portraits was allowed here.
What if this fall on Biden due to timeshifting ?
Hard to predict the future. I not even know whats for dinner tomorrow even I make it myself :)
Pelosi and Clinton could make a decent horror movie together…
I partly agree. USA need some other kind of election system. Its strange who gets elected even they can choose among 330 mio.
It must co-star Obummer. Then it’s a blockbuster !!!?
Trump incognito..xD https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9e7612836ad252a6692e0b39dd677a3bd298cdabe30f2b47955881bb66fd2171.jpg
Perhaps Pelosi should focus on vaginal reconstruction since her intellect is beyond repair.
Petrified.
Impeachment is a race against the clock, the senate is in recess until 19th (unless all 100 vote for early return), Trump leaves on 20th so that gives 24 hrs to have a trial. Not realistic
Its total panic in the Libtard ranks now, by the look of it.
All bluff, and bluster, an attempt to project blame onto Trump for her own treason. If she moves forward with her absurd threats, she puts herself, and half the illusion there’s a two party political system at risk of being repaid in her own currency. Her list of criminality is far longer than Trumps, her participation in the Obummercare mandate is beyond sufficient to get her hanged. Along with every one of the walking/talking crimes against humanity that were associated with this crime. Her name is on more legislation that’s designed specifically to infringe The Bill of Rights, to a point it’s a criminal act to excersise them, than any other member of the US Congress. With the exception of Feinstein, Kerry, McCain, Romney, and HW Bush.