Outmaneuvering the Republicans (letter) | Letters To The Editor – LancasterOnline

Remember back in March 2016, when President Barack Obama nominated Merrick Garland for the Supreme Court, and Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell decided to hold up a confirmation vote in the Senate until after the presidential election, so the next president could select the replacement for Antonin Scalia?

With Obama being a Democrat and McConnell hoping a Republican would win the presidency, it was a gutsy move.

Well, its payback time.

It appears House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has outmaneuvered the Republicans by getting President Donald Trump impeached and holding up sending the articles hes being charged with to the Senate for a trial.

She asserts that she wont do that until shes assured by McConnell that the Senate will conduct a fair trial using documents and witnesses the White House has so far failed to provide.

Ive read speculation that maybe shell wait until after the 2020 election in the hope that Democrats can take the Senate. And, in the meantime, Trump will have to conduct his reelection attempt with an impeachment record on his resume.

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I love Nancy Pelosi.

She should be president!

Ben Thompson Jr.

Lebanon

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