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NEW: We've entered the impeachment abyss.

There are no rules or guardrails for this part of the process.

Instead, the nation is watching the raw exercise of power by Pelosi and McConnell, waiting for a victor or a compromise to emerge.

politico.com/news/2019/12/2…
It’s what Rep. Raskin calls the true meaning of “checks and balances” — the purposeful tension between House and Senate, guided by little more than a presumption of good faith. But like everything in the Trump era this presumption is being stress-tested.

politico.com/news/2019/12/2…
Lawmakers confess there's nothing to stop Pelosi from delaying articles from reaching the Senate. There's nothing to stop McConnell from coordinating with the WH.

Without rule or precedent to guide them, the leaders are now making it up as they go along. politico.com/news/2019/12/2…
The whole episode has sparked an odd debate about whether Trump has truly been impeached: if he has, then the Senate has the constitutional authority to start its trial immediately.

Only a Senate rule, which can be changed, stands in the way. politico.com/news/2019/12/2…
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Kyle Cheney
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MCCONNELL backs resolution to change Senate rules to dismiss impeachment articles if they don't arrive from the House within 25 days of passage -- or Jan. 12 in this case.
Here's the text of the proposal.
Important context:
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Kyle Cheney
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BREAKING: Speaner Nancy Pelosi says "we are ready" to send articles of impeahcment but reiterates she needs to see the rules of engagement before she can name impeachment managers, which kickstarts the trial.
Dems described two competing reasons to withhold articles:

-Senate process must be fair
-House needs to know the technical details of the process before it can name managers

House leaders initially leaned on the first but lately are leaning far more into the second reason.
Worth noting that House and Senate during Clinton impeahcment process were both Republican, so leaders had incentive to coordinate strategy and trial process.

This is the first time in history impeachment has happened in a split Congress.
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Kyle Cheney
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NEW: The House impeached President Donald Trump three weeks ago, but a gusher of evidence related to the case has continued to flow — threatening to intensify the Ukraine scandal, regardless of what happens in the Senate.

w/ @AndrewDesiderio

politico.com/news/2020/01/0…
@AndrewDesiderio John Bolton's offer to testify was just the latest new stream of potential evidence: there's Lev Parnas' documents, emails related to the hold on military aid and Jennifer Williams' classified letter about Pence's Sept. 17 call with Ukraine.

politico.com/news/2020/01/0…
@AndrewDesiderio It all points toward a perilous predicament for Republicans deciding just how much evidence to allow into the Senate impeachment trial -- but also that the case is likely to unfold and deepen regardless of what happens in the Senate.

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THREAD — #IMPEACHMENT 101

OK, let's cut through the noise on impeachment.

First, let's state the obvious:

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Vigorous #impeachment discussion yesterday between polls and elections expert @NateSilver538 (con) and former Harry Reid person @AJentleson (pro). The subject is worth a thread.
2. As with most issues before Congress, substance and politics are closely related but distinguishable. As to substance, the argument -- persuasive to me -- is that obstruction of justice, contacts with Russians seeking to influence a US election, corruption and the rest...
3...will do mortal damage to American democracy if tolerated. Not proceeding toward impeachment proceedings means tolerating all of these things, though it is possible to deceive oneself on that point. The political argument @NateSilver538 makes is about American voters.
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Larisa Alexandrovna
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1. I am so sick of hearing that the ONLY reason Trump should be impeached is if he conspired with a foreign power to steal the election. Let's remove that entire smokescreen and look at impeachment as a tool and why Trump needs to be impeached EVEN WITHOUT conspiracy allegations.
2. First, let's be clear about the ramifications of Pelosi's impeachment-is-too-divisive bullshit. We heard this before, about 15 years ago, when she took impeachment "off the table" even though the Bush administration lied us into an illegal war of aggression and ...
3. And violated Geneva conventions to make torture part of the intelligence toolbox. Here is what I opined then: "When Speaker Pelosi declared that the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney was “off the table,” she not only abdicated her Constitutional..."
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Joshua Matz
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In this article, @Sulliview argues that "talk of impeachment, all-but-taboo in Big Media’s coverage of Trump, [has] moved from the margins into the mainstream." She attributes that development mainly to a prominent essay in @TheAtlantic. That's not right. washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/styl…
There's no denying that #impeachment talk has accelerated over the past few months. But I'm not convinced that this past week was really such a Rubicon when considered in broader perspective, or that a handful of well-argued essays in liberal magazines are the drivers of change.
For starters, there's been no shortage of impeachment talk in mainstream publications since Trump took office. I've gathered quite a few such articles in this @ShallTakeCare database, which includes analyses tracing back to before Trump even took office. takecareblog.com/blog/impeachin…
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