12-06-2019, 12:26 PM
Nancy Pelosi knows the Constitution quite well, as demonstrated repeatedly during her 40 years of government service.
And, it's certainly not 'cherry picking' to cite only the clauses of the Constitution that apply to the situation at hand. It's just common sense and appropriate.
I don't think that's reasonably debatable, even if one dislikes Pelosi and disagrees with her application of the Constitution in this specific impeachment case.
Anyway, it doesn't appear that Pelosi or anyone else expects the Republican-majority Senate to remove President Trump from office if the House impeaches him.
So, whether House impeachment of Trump, upon conclusion of the established process and fact-finding, would eventually benefit or hurt Democratic politicians more is definitely debatable and remains to be seen.
Impeachment could equally fire up Democrat voters (for it) and Republican voters (against it), so convincing Independent voters ahead of the 2020 election is likely a major goal of both political parties, I imagine.
And, it's certainly not 'cherry picking' to cite only the clauses of the Constitution that apply to the situation at hand. It's just common sense and appropriate.
I don't think that's reasonably debatable, even if one dislikes Pelosi and disagrees with her application of the Constitution in this specific impeachment case.
Anyway, it doesn't appear that Pelosi or anyone else expects the Republican-majority Senate to remove President Trump from office if the House impeaches him.
So, whether House impeachment of Trump, upon conclusion of the established process and fact-finding, would eventually benefit or hurt Democratic politicians more is definitely debatable and remains to be seen.
Impeachment could equally fire up Democrat voters (for it) and Republican voters (against it), so convincing Independent voters ahead of the 2020 election is likely a major goal of both political parties, I imagine.