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by Countable's Trump Impeachment Coverage | 1.6.20

What’s the story?

Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told Fox News that if House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) doesn’t send the Senate the articles of impeachment this week, he’ll try to change the upper-chamber’s rules to allow for a trial to proceed without them.
\"If we don’t get the articles this week, then we need to take matters in our own hands and change the rules, deem them to be delivered to the Senate so we can start the trial, invite the House over to participate if they would like,\" Graham said on \"Sunday Morning Futures.\" \"If they don’t come, dismiss the case and get on with governing the country.\"
Pelosi has suggested she’ll delay sending the articles of impeachment against President Trump to the Senate until Democrats are guaranteed a “fair trial,” which would include calling witnesses.
Graham pushed back against this argument, telling Fox that Pelosi was engaging in a “political stunt” and the Senate should “take matters in our own hands.”
\"What I would do, if she continues to refuse to send the articles as required by the Constitution, I would work with Senator McConnell to change the rules of the Senate so we could start the trial without her, if necessary,\" Graham said. \"We’re not going to let Nancy Pelosi use the rules of the Senate to her advantage. This is dangerous to the presidency as an institution.\"

\"They impeached the president, but the speaker of the House is holding the articles back, trying to extort from the majority leader of the Senate a trial to her liking. They’re trying to hold these articles over the head of the president.\"

Graham’s suggestion echoes that of other GOP Senators, including Josh Hawley of Missouri, who tweeted:

McConnell said Monday that the \"House may have been content to scrap their own norms to hurt President Trump, but that is not the Senate.\"

What do you think?

Should the Senate change impeachment rules to move forward without receiving the articles of impeachment? Take action and tell your reps, then share your thoughts below.

—Josh Herman

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