1) There is a supposition, suggesting that the House of Representatives could try to impeach President Trump again or impeach Attorney General Bill Barr to inhibit the Senate from moving expeditiously to confirm a Supreme Court Justice.
2) It’s hard to see how any such scenario could impede the Senate.
Let’s hypothetically that the House does impeach the President or Barr and appoints House managers to handle a Senate impeachment trial.
3) Senate Impeachment Rule I requires the Senate to approve a resolution to receive and exhibit the articles of impeachment. Impeachment Rule II establishes the formal beginning to the trial.
4) Short of the Senate approving an additional resoluton to establish impeachment trial parameters, the regular impeachment rules kick in. If dealing with the President, Chief Justice John Roberts presides and swears-in senators as jurors.
5) If the Senate fails to adopt any special framework for a trial, Impeachment Rule III kicks in. That requires the Senate to hold the trial six days a week, starting at 1 pm et “until final judgment shall be rendered.”
6) Even if the Senate is in the middle of fulfilling its obligations of a trial, that doesn’t hijack the Senate from tackling other business - such as a Supreme Court nomination. The Senate could deal with such a nomination either before or after the trial period on any day.
7) So it’s hard to see how any impeachment trial could have any practical effect and delay the confirmation process for a Supreme Court nominee.
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1) User's Manual to how control of the House could flip to the Democrats before the election.
Control of the House has never changed in the middle of a Congress. But if it’s going to happen, the 118th Congress is as ripe for that possibility.
2) House Republicans face chaos in their conference. Members who planned to retire next January are now ditching Capitol Hill early. The House is an acrimonious place with yet another move afoot to dethrone the Speaker.
3) Fox is told that other Republicans are angling to get out as soon as they can. A big payday in the private sector could lure some members to cash in their voting card early.
First, let’s talk about the length of a given “Congress.”
A) From colleague Kelly Phares. There is sparring between Cotton and Tester about who is holding up an agreement to vote on the minibus spending bill.
B) Off the Senate floor, the two men came face to face while speaking to separate groups of reporters. Sen Cotton yelled at Tester over all the reporters: "Why don't you ask Senator Tester why we aren't voting?"
Sen Tester yelled back: "You can ask me anything you want!"
C) Tester then spoke to reporters: "Did Cotton say that they're holding amendments because of Jon Tester? Because if he did, he might be full of something that comes off the back of a cow"
1) There is no agreement between senators on a voting on a host of amendments related to border, migration and the Laken Riley Act. The mood in the Senate has grown increasingly dark over the past two hours and time slipping off the clock.
2) Even if the sides were to get a deal now, it would be hard to finish up before the 11:59:59 pm et deadline to align with the House.
3) “I thought we’d have it by now,” said Sen. John Hoeven (R-ND), looking at his watch, noting that deals like this usually come together around the 7 pm et hour.
When asked what the Republicans were offering, Sen. Peter Welch (D-VT) replied “nothing good.”
1) Fox has learned that the Attorney General for the District of Columbia has dropped charges against Steve Nikoui for disrupting Congress during the President’s State of the Union speech earlier this month.
2) Nikoui is the father of Kareem Nikoui who was killed during the Biden Administration’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021.
Fox learned of the decision this evening. The decision to drop the charges was confirmed by the Speaker’s Office.
3) Fox was told the DC AG’s office decided not to prosecute in this case just as they have in the cases of protesters in the past.
Steve Nikoui was a guest of Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL) for the speech and interrupted the President, shouting “Abbey Gate!”
1) House GOP and could mean the House is down to a one-seat majority soon, not long after Buck resignation
It is ALWAYS about the math.
That is augmented by the resignation of Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) next week.
2) Buck tells me he will remain a member until the end of the day on March 22.
That is also the deadline for the next batch of spending bills to avoid a shutdown.
Also, the GOP majority could even shrivel more before it gets better.
3) The next special election is for the seat occupied by former Rep. Brian Higgins (D-NY) on April 30. If that seat stays in Democratic hands, the new breakdown is 432 members with 218 Republicans and 214 Democrats.
A) Jordan on Fox on Hur testimony: He also said that he couldn't remember when he was elected vice president, how long he served as vice president during the interview that they had over a two day time period. So the memory concerns, I think are evident.
B) Jordan: The American people see that all the time. But I think there's also remember, this is over five decades. There was classified material found clear back in the early days when Joe Biden was senator from Delaware. So this is a 50 year process.
C) Jordan: And I think a fundamental point here is two is Joe Biden was totally familiar with how you are supposed to handle classified documents 50 years in public service.