IMPEACHMENT TRIAL: NANCY PELOSI MUST NOT BE ALLOWED A DO OVER.

ICHEOKU says Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi had all the time and opportunity in the world to get her acts right, together and conduct a fair and transparent impeachment of the president but bungled it. She rush through a sham impeachment to ensure that House Democrats voted before the holidays, when they would have had the opportunity to hear from their constituents, who do not want the president impeached and thus would have voted differently or like Tulsi Gabbard voted present. 

But Madam Speaker was under heavy pleasure from LGBTQ and other crazed out, wild eyed, liberal donors and activists wing of the Democratic Party, who wanted the president impeached and needed such deliverable tendered immediately, before they can continue bankrolling the Democratic Party. She caved in and the result was an impeachment that was technically no impeachment at all; and thus embarrassed, Madam Speaker is trying to fix the impeachment by demanding a restart of the impeachment hearing and probably  its investigation, de novo in the Senate. Nobody forced nor pressured her to rush through the impeachment and if in fact she needed more witnesses and evidence, she would have allowed the courts to rule on the motions before it on the legality of the president not providing some witnesses and producing some documents which were requested by the House of Representatives. 

But Madam Speaker decided to ignore what is a normal process of adjudicating issues and controversies in courts and went forth to impeach the president with whatever evidence she had and considered sufficient. Therefore it begs the question why she is now asking that more witnesses be called in the Senate, which technically shows that she impeached the president with insufficient evidence, when she should not have done so. Madam Speaker is trying so desperately to tele-guide and dictate to the Senate on how to do its job of conducting the impeachment trail, by insisting that certain assurances be given to her before she will transmit the Articles of Impeachment to them. Madam Speaker is contravening an imperative under the law of impeachment, which designates the Senate as the exclusive legislative chamber to conduct the trial of an impeached president. It also did not condition this duty on the emotional foibles of Madam Speaker. 

Therefore, what Madam Speaker is trying to do, seeking to usurp the duty of the Senate, is unprecedented; and must not be allowed to stand, otherwise she will be setting yet another bad precedent where the lower House of Representatives now controls and dictates to the upper House, Senate. Such an obfuscation was never intended by the founding fathers who bequeathed on the Senate the calming powers over sometimes impulsive acts of an otherwise ever restive Congress. Madam Speaker has already set a bad precedent when she drastically lowered the bar and threshold for impeachment by impeaching the president for a perfect phone call and should not be allowed to increase the tally of such bad precedents, by illegally withholding the Articles of Impeachment, pending a reciprocity that meets her desires. 

Under no circumstance are the powers of the House of Representatives superior to the Senate's, particularly on matter of impeachment of the president; and Madam Speaker will not be allowed to manufacture such an adjunct powers now. Except Madam Speaker is tardy, she should have since appointed the House managers of the impeachment trial and as soon as she flagged off the impeachment hearing. They should have been waiting to spring it over to the Senate as soon as the votes were affirmative. Madam Speaker must therefore not be allowed to make it up as she goes, because there are rules and precedents governing an impeachment of a president as this is not the first time the House ever impeached a president. It is either she conforms or the impeachment is a dud, since it never made it to the Senate as required by the Constitution. 

Madam Speakers' powers over the impeachment ended when the votes to impeach the president were tallied and collated. Thereafter, the power over the conduct of the trial of the impeached president automatically vests in the Senate. Therefore, Madam Speaker holding over the Articles of Impeachment is ultra vires her powers as Speaker, as she has no right to do so, period. What she is doing by withholding the Articles of Impeachment amounts to usurpation of powers of the Senate, which she is denying their constitutionally vested authority to sit in judgment over an impeached president. If Madam Speaker wants to "unimpeach" the president, that will be a different thing; but having already impeached the president, she must comply forthwith and without more or preconditions or demands, to the law, by transmitting the Articles of Impeachment to the Senate. 

This is a non negotiable duty of the Speaker; it is imperative and not subject to any qualifications whatsoever. Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi overreached herself and arbitrary extended her authority by demanding that the Senate provide her their template for conducting the trial, their duty, of the president before she will release the Articles of Impeachment to them. Madam Speaker is not doing the Senate a favor by complying with a requirement of the Constitution and her present stand off amounts to a shakedown and blackmail; aka the quid pro quo and bribery which she accused the president of. A duty is an obligation and not a privilege which is discretionary and demands absolutism in compliance. So Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi has no basis both in fact and law as well as precedents, to take the Articles of Impeachment hostage to her whims and caprices. 

Therefore Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi must do her duty and transmit the Articles of Impeachment to the Senate pronto; and without any further ado or delay, regardless of how she feels about its destined outcome. Unfortunately for Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi and luckily for American people, Charles Schumer is not the Senate Majority Leader; so justice will be done to the unjust impeachment and the president will be set free. ICHEOKU never knew how crazed out this woman is until this impeachment hoopla assumed a life. Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi is a crazed out, wild eyed, feminist numero uno from the foremost liberal American City of San Francisco and has left nobody in doubt that her credentials were well earned. The woman is a handful and indeed something else; which reminds ICHEOKU of the funny way she stretched her hands and formed her hands when she was clapping for the president at the last State of the Union address. Simply incredible and mired in incredulity.