参议员乔希·霍利指责众议院议长南希·佩洛西在处理唐纳德·特朗普总统审判的政治纠纷中，推迟弹劾条款的移交，从而“颠覆了宪法”。
周一，密苏里州共和党人霍利向参议院介绍决议更新其规则，以便弹劾条款在通过后25天内由众议院提出，否则可以因未被多数票起诉而被驳回。
“这非常重要，因为众议院议长试图管理美国参议院。她试图劫持审判。她试图阻挠审判，”霍利在周一晚上的福克斯新闻节目中告诉肖恩·哈尼蒂。
“这样做，她真的颠覆了宪法，因为宪法是明确的。它说众议院有权弹劾。他们做到了。错误的决定，但他们已经做了。参议院有权审理此案，现在是参议院反击的时候了。”
新闻周刊请佩洛西议长办公室通过电子邮件发表评论，如果有文章的话，他会更新这篇文章。
改变参议院规则需要三分之二的绝对多数，这使得霍利的决议一旦付诸表决，就极不可能通过。目前有53名共和党参议员、45名民主党人和两名独立人士与民主党人组成核心小组。
众议院弹劾特朗普滥用权力和阻挠国会12月18日，他涉嫌对乌克兰的不当行为。根据霍利的提议，这些文章将于1月11日因未被起诉而被驳回。
具体来说，特朗普被指控在下届总统选举中寻求乌克兰的干预，以利于他的连任竞选，然后通过拒绝配合国会对指控的调查来阻挠国会。总统否认有任何不当行为。
据称，特朗普将3.91亿美元的军事援助和总统沃洛季米尔·泽兰斯基的白宫访问作为基辅对前副总统乔·拜登(2020年的主要候选人)和民主党毫无根据的指控展开腐败调查的条件。
民主党人说，在参议院占多数的共和党人不允许对特朗普进行公平审判。佩洛西拒绝发表文章，因此推迟了审判，向参议院共和党人施压，要求他们传唤民主党人寻求的关键证人。
特朗普的前最高国家安全顾问约翰·博尔顿大使是这些潜在证人之一，他在周一的一份声明中说如果参议院传唤他作证，他会作证。民主党人希望博尔顿的证词能为特朗普的不当行为提供有力证据。
民主党人还要求公布特朗普政府在众议院弹劾调查中扣留的文件，以便参议院在做出判定特朗普有罪或无罪的决定时能够获得所有证据。
但是参议院多数党领袖米奇·麦康奈尔，肯塔基州共和党人，拒绝同意民主党的要求。他认为民主党对特朗普的指控是党派性的，而且极其微弱，他希望加快对总统的审判，从弹劾问题上继续下去。
“我的民主党同事不应该在一些奇怪的内部竞争中破坏美国的团结，看谁更不喜欢总统，”麦康奈尔说告诉参议院星期一。
“他们不应该蔑视我们的宪法，匆忙通过纯粹的党派弹劾程序，然后玩弄它。治理是严肃的事情。美国人民应该得到更好的待遇。比这好多了。”
博尔顿声明如果被传唤，他愿意作证，佩洛西在推特上写道，特朗普和麦康奈尔“没有借口了”
佩洛西说:“他们必须允许关键证人作证，出示特朗普封锁的文件，这样美国人才能亲眼看到事实。”推特。"参议院不能参与总统的掩盖活动。"
霍利告诉汉尼蒂，“我们只听到总统被免职有多紧急，他是多么严重的国家安全威胁——无论这意味着什么——而现在，突然间，一点也不紧急。”
霍利说:“我认为这表明民主党和佩洛西唯一的紧迫性是他们个人对美国总统的仇恨。”。
“他们从未接受他的选举。他们从来不希望他任职。他们想把他弄出来。但是现在，当是时候提出或闭嘴，并且实际上提出他们的证据时，他们害怕这样做，因为他们没有任何证据。这是一个骗局，一个笑话，一个骗局。
“他们没有案子，他们知道。这就是为什么他们害怕进行审判。参议院准备进行审判。总统应该接受审判。美国人民应该受到审判，这样我们就可以让这件事平息。”
去年12月底进行的一项经济学人/YouGov调查发现，在接受调查的1500名美国成年人中，45%的人我认为参议院应该解除特朗普的职务41%的人认为不应该。无论哪种方式，都有14%的人不确定。
2019年12月18日，DC华盛顿，参议员乔希·霍利在美国国会大厦举行的参议院国土安全和政府事务委员会听证会上做手势。霍利告诉福克斯新闻主持人肖恩·哈尼蒂，众议院议长南希·佩洛西试图“劫持”参议院对唐纳德·特朗普总统的审判。
PELOSI IS 'TRYING TO OBSTRUCT' TRUMP'S IMPEACHMENT TRIAL, GOP SENATOR SAYS: 'SHE'S REALLY SUBVERTING THE CONSTITUTION'
Senator Josh Hawley has accused House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of "subverting the Constitution" by delaying the transfer of impeachment articles in a political dispute over the handling of President Donald Trump's trial.
On Monday Hawley, a Missouri Republican, introduced to the Senate a resolution to update its rules so that articles of impeachment can be dismissed for lack of prosecution by a majority vote unless they are sent up by the House within 25 days of their passage.
"This is so important because the House speaker is trying to run the United States Senate. She's trying to hijack the trial. She's trying to obstruct the trial," Hawley told Sean Hannity on his Fox News show Monday night.
"And in so doing she's really subverting the Constitution because the Constitution's clear. It says the House has the power to impeach. They've done that. Wrong decision, but they've done it. The Senate has the power to try the case and it's time for the Senate to fight back."
Newsweek asked Speaker Pelosi's office for comment by email and will update this article if one is provided.
Changing Senate rules requires a two-thirds supermajority, making Hawley's resolution highly unlikely to pass if it is ever brought to a vote. There are currently 53 Republican Senators, 45 Democrats, and two independents who caucus with the Democrats.
The House impeached Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress on December 18 over his alleged misconduct towards Ukraine. Under Hawley's proposals, the articles would be dismissed for lack of prosecution on January 11.
Specifically, Trump is accused of soliciting Ukraine's interference in the next presidential election to benefit his re-election campaign and then obstructing Congress by refusing to cooperate with its investigation into the allegations. The president denies any wrongdoing.
Trump allegedly conditioned $391 million of military aid and a White House visit for President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Kyiv opening corruption investigations into unfounded claims regarding former Vice President Joe Biden, a leading 2020 candidate, and the Democratic Party.
Democrats say Republicans, who have a majority in the Senate, are not going to allow a fair trial of Trump. Pelosi is withholding the articles, and so delaying the trial, to put pressure on Senate Republicans to call key witnesses sought by the Democrats.
One of those potential witnesses, Trump's former top national security adviser Ambassador John Bolton, said in a statement on Monday that he would testify if subpoenaed to do so by the Senate. Democrats hope Bolton's testimony holds powerful evidence of Trump's wrongdoing.
The Democrats are also demanding the release of documents withheld by the Trump administration from the House impeachment inquiry so the Senate trial can access all of the evidence when coming to its decision to convict or acquit Trump.
But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, is refusing to grant the Democratic requests. He believes the Democratic case against Trump is partisan and terminally weak, and he wants to expedite the president's trial to move on from the impeachment issue.
"My Democratic colleagues should not plow away American unity in some bizarre intramural competition to see who dislikes the president more," McConnell told the Senate on Monday.
"They should not disdain our constitution by rushing through a purely partisan impeachment process and then toying around with it. Governing is serious business. The American people deserve better. A lot better than this."
After Bolton's statement that he is willing to testify if subpoenaed, Pelosi wrote on Twitter that Trump and McConnell "have run out of excuses."
"They must allow key witnesses to testify, and produce the documents Trump has blocked, so Americans can see the facts for themselves," Pelosi tweeted. "The Senate cannot be complicit in the President's cover-up."
Hawley told Hannity that "we heard nothing but how urgent it was the president be removed, what a national security threat he was—whatever that was supposed to mean—and now, all of a sudden, no urgency at all."
"I think what that shows is the only urgency on the part of the Democrats and Pelosi was an urgency to pursue their personal vendetta against the president of the United States," Hawley said.
"They never accepted his election. They never wanted him in office. They wanted to get him out. But now, when it's time to put up or shut up, and actually put their evidence forward, they're afraid to do it because they don't have any evidence. It's a sham, it's a joke, it's a fraud.
"They have no case and they know it. That's why they're afraid to proceed to a trial. The Senate is ready to have a trial. The president deserves to have a trial. The American people deserve a trial so we can put this thing to rest."
An Economist/YouGov poll conducted at the end of December found that 45 percent of the 1,500 American adults surveyed think the Senate should remove Trump from office against 41 percent who believe it should not. There were 14 percent not sure either way.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) gestures during a Senate Committee On Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs hearing at the US Capitol on December 18, 2019 in Washington, DC. Hawley told Fox News host Sean Hannity that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is trying to "hijack" the Senate's trial of President Donald Trump.
