WTF? #MoscowMitch advised to use 'nuclear option' in the Senate to prevent an impeachment trial
On Jeanine Pirro's FOX show last night, Tom Fitton, the president of the right-wing group Judicial Watch, urged #MoscowMitch to 'change the rules of the Senate' and use 'nuclear option' to prevent an impeachment trial in the Senate.
“The Senate is going to have to try any impeachment,” Fitton explained. “And if I were the Senate Majority Leader, I’d tell the House, ‘This is dead on arrival, we’re changing the rules, we are going to kill it before it even gets out of the cradle. And we will not follow up with impeachment trial.'”
“I think American citizens should be asking Mitch McConnell to exercise his prerogatives as majority leader and change the rules,” he advised.
Pirro, who was once a Judge, actually said she agreed with him.
Right-wingers have gone batshit crazy over this. American Citizens should be pushing for the Senate to do their job, according to the Constitution:
“The Senate shall have the sole power to try all impeachments,” the Constitution says. “When the president of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside.”