. HawleyMO calls for impeachment inquiry to answer, ‘Is the president a crook?’ READ:
Seven months into Republican control of the House of Representatives, they are making noises about impeaching President Joe Biden. And Biden’s vanquished opponent is demanding it.
Congressional experts told the Washington Examiner that in matters of impeachment, the House proposes and the Senate, currently run by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer , disposes. And that it disposes in any way it wishes. “Article I, Sections 2 and 3 [of the Constitution] establish the impeachment power, and nothing in the text prescribes a timeline for Senate action, or that the Senate must act at all,” Kevin Kosar, a political scientist at the American Enterprise Institute, told the Washington Examiner in an email. “But the rules of the Senate do require the chamber to start the process upon notification of the House. And past practice has been that the Senate does act once the House has voted to impeach.
“The Constitution is vague on impeachment’s details, as in most things,” Mayer told the Washington Examiner. “But unlike, say, passing a law, impeachment has happened so rarely that there are not binding precedents for most matters. So yes, the Senate could choose to not hold a trial.” He showed that the political blowback from holding or not holding a trial is hard to predict with certainty.
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