Impeachment impasse deepens as McConnell rejects Pelosi’s bid to shape trial

January 3, 2020

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, speaking from the chamber’s floor Friday, rejected House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s efforts to shape a pending impeachment trial as “fantasy”—leaving the process at a standstill as lawmakers return from the holiday recess. …

‘Impasse’ over Trump impeachment trial, as Dems depart from precedent

December 20, 2019

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., incredulously returned to the Senate floor late Thursday to declare that the Senate and House Democrats were at an “impasse” over whether the House would transmit its articles of impeachment against President Trump to the …