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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) recently landed herself in hot water.
Impeachment is not a criminal proceeding, but this hasn’t stopped Democrats from repeatedly comparing the House inquiry to a grand jury investigation.
Democrats have compared impeachment itself to an indictment.
According to the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution, it explicitly states: “In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial.”
Although impeachment is not a criminal proceeding, it would be difficult to argue that the President enjoys fewer rights than an ordinary criminal defendant.
Pelosi is violating this basic right to a fair and speedy trial.
“Fair trial” applies to the accused and not to the accuser.
However, Pelosi’s actions have completely inverted the concept of a “fair trial.”
In particular, House Speaker Pelosi has insisted that she will not appoint House managers for President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial.
Pelosi refuses to transmit the articles of impeachment to the Senate.
Pelosi wants guarantees that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) will provide a “fair trial.”
Again, it’s the President who has a right to a fair and speedy trial, yet Pelosi is preventing this from happening.
Yesterday, it was reported that Democrats may vote on additional articles of impeachment.
A federal appeals court was told that the House Judiciary Committee still wants testimony from former White House counsel Don McGahn.
The House Judiciary Committee deems the testimony from Don McGahn important, as it could potentially lead to the introduction of “additional articles of impeachment” against our sitting President, Donald Trump.
A brief was submitted to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, which included the argument from the panel’s counsel, Doug Letter.
Letter argued that the subpoena of McGahn is not a matter up for debate, although the House already approved two articles of impeachment on Wednesday evening.
“If McGahn’s testimony produces new evidence supporting the conclusion that President Trump committed impeachable offenses that are not covered by the Articles approved by the House.”
“The Committee will proceed accordingly—including, if necessary, by considering whether to recommend new articles of impeachment,” according to the brief.
Democrats are not just afraid of losing in the Senate; they are also hoping to find more evidence to bolster their weak case.
More from Breitbart:
Now, Pelosi and the Democrats want to change the rules. They want to hold impeachment over the president’s head before they have come to a final decision about what they will be impeaching him for — a Kafka-esque scenario in which the accused must wait for judicial process until guilt is found.
That is, unless he is a Republican named Trump.
Democrats have already trampled his rights to due process and his rights to legal representation, departing from the precedents in the Nixon and Clinton impeachment inquiries. Pelosi’s new gambit simply adds to those abuses and mocks the ideal of justice.
A fair trial is impossible under such circumstances. Indeed, Pelosi has no intention of providing a fair trial. She is attempting to exert power that she does not even have, according to the Constitution, to dictate the Senate’s trial procedures.
The only “fair trial” possible now must result in a dismissal.
