Pelosi No Fool

In the Washington Post, we learn that “House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told Democrats in a closed-door meeting ... that she will not act until she learns more about how the Senate would conduct the trial, according to three people present for her remarks.”

This is undoubtedly wise on her part given that Mitch McConnell has indicated “Republicans have enough votes to proceed with President Trump’s impeachment trial with no agreement with Democrats on witnesses.” In other words, to run the impeachment in such a way as to make the conviction of the President pretty much impossible.

This is not a promising beginning for anything like so abstract and rare as justice.

See: Impeachment live updates: McConnell says he is ready to proceed with Trump impeachment trial with no agreement on witnesses, according to two officials by By Felicia Sonmez, Colby Itkowitz,  John Wagner and  Seung Min Kim

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Michael Jay Tucker is a writer and journalist who has published material on topics ranging from the Jazz Age to computers. (Among his small claims to fame is that he interviewed Steve Jobs just after that talented if complicated man got kicked out of Apple, and just before the company’s Board came begging him to come back.) Tucker’s most recent book is Padre: To The Island, a meditation on life and death based on the passing of his own parents.