Pelosi’s Decision to Delay Articles of Impeachment Causes Controversy on Both Sides
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We ran the numbers: There are 707 news articles covering this topic. 32% (224) are left leaning, 44% (313) center, 24% (170) right leaning.
Republicans and Democrats comment on the refusal by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to submit formal articles of impeachment to the Senate until there is a clearer sense of how the trial will be conducted.
The New York Times ran a left-leaning editorial stating that Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska’s concern with Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell’s pledge to coordinate with the president’s legal team on impeachment, should be a concern shared by more of her Republican colleagues. The editorial also responds to Trump’s “tantrum” about the “scam” of the impeachment process and states that the separation of powers gives Pelosi the right to impeach with President with a slight majority in the House.
A centrist-leaning article by The Hill reports that Kent Greenfield, a Kentucky-born Boston College law professor, wrote an op-ed Friday saying that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell broke two of the three oaths in the U.S. Constitution by working with Trump on the impeachment trial. Greenfield states that McConnel is breaking the oath to support the Constitution, and the oath or affirmation that the Constitution requires when it gives the Senate the “sole” power to “try all impeachments.”
A right-leaning article by Fox News highlights that House Chief Deputy Whip Dan Kildee, D-Mich., criticized McConnell and defended House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., for delaying the articles of impeachment. Kildee stated that the “responsibilities lies with Senator McConnell to stop being so obtuse and get about the business of organizing this trial.” He also stated that Pelosi made the right decision, because the House of Representatives “is not absent from the Senate trial. We're not sort of bystanders to it.”
From the center
Law professor writes Kentucky newspaper op-ed accusing McConnell of breaking two oaths
The Hill
From the right
Leading house Dem defends Pelosi blames McConnell for delay in senate impeachment trial
Fox News