Schumer Joins Pelosi in Backing Plan to Sit on Impeachment Articles
The day after the House of Representatives voted to impeach President Trump, the person who will be leading Democrats in the impeachment trial, Democratic Senate leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), said that he backs the idea of withholding the articles of impeachment until Senate Republicans offer them more favorable terms for the trial.
In his office on Thursday, Schumer told reporters that he and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) are on “the same page” when it comes to the speaker’s decision to sit on the articles of impeachment instead of immediately sending them to the GOP leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.
Pelosi shocked impeachment observers after the votes were held on Wednesday night by announcing that she would not immediately send the two freshly passed articles of impeachment over the Senate. Instead, she told reporters, the House would retain them until they feel that McConnell, who has said he’s coordinating the trial with the White House, has offered acceptable terms.