Report: Articles of impeachment are en route to the Senate
Is it game on for an impeachment trial? Photo: Tom Brenner/Win McNamee/Getty Images After extended maneuvering over the timetable for an impeachment trial, at least one Beltway source says a breakthrough has occurred:
It’s entirely unclear whether this is just a best-case-scenario guesstimate by McConnell, or even a gambit to add to the pressure on Pelosi to transmit the articles of impeachment, or a genuinely educated guess. But it is true that under the standing rules of the Senate, once articles of impeachment are presented by official representatives of the House, the upper chamber has to put aside all other business and proceed to a trial quickly.
That speedy timetable is based on formal presentation of the articles by House mangers, not some informal transmission, so even if Pelosi has resolved to transmit the articles, it’s unclear when the clock on beginning of the trial would begin to toll. “[McConnell] expects them at some point here very soon,” said Sen. Marco Rubio . “The sense is that even if they got here at this very moment right now, there’s still a process involved to notify the White House and chief justice and turning it all around. So it sounds like to me the earliest we can get on that would be the Monday when we get back.”“I’m not sure he has any specific knowledge, but the gut feeling is that it will come over there tomorrow and set up for a Monday start,” he added.
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