The impeachment managers are revealed.
Source: New York Times
Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California on Wednesday named seven House Democrats to serve as managers of the impeachment case against President Trump, selecting a diverse team to prosecute the case for his removal in the Senate.
As expected, the most prominent leaders of the impeachment investigation, Representatives Adam B. Schiff of California, the chairman of the Intelligence Committee, and Jerrold Nadler of New York, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, will be part of the group.
Ms. Pelosi also named Representatives Zoe Lofgren of California, Hakeem Jeffries of New York, Val B. Demings of Florida, Jason Crow of Colorado and Sylvia R. Garcia of Texas. Mr. Crow and Ms. Garcia are both first-term members.
The group will serve as the public face of the impeachment process starting immediately. They are expected to carry the two articles of impeachment over to the Senate chamber late Wednesday afternoon. Once the Senate signals it is ready to proceed with the trial, as early as Thursday, the managers will once again cross the Capitol, entering the Senate well to read aloud the charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. And they will be the ones to make opening arguments in the case against the president at the start of the trial only the third of its kind in American history most likely beginning next week.
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mahatmakanejeeves
(57,647 posts)TheRealNorth
(9,500 posts)Although that me a bit presumptuous, if they don't do a good job.
Bayard
(22,172 posts)Demings and Jeffries will make very good showings. Don't know much about the others.
BumRushDaShow
(129,614 posts)She was a staffer on the Judiciary Committee during the Watergate Hearings/Nixon impeachment investigations as well as being a member of the Judiciary Committee during the Clinton impeachment. Basically she is their Committee "historian".
Crow is a vet who flipped his seat in CO in 2018 (1st Dem in almost 40 years in that area) and Garcia is also a new member having come out of the Texas state legislature.
All but Demmings are lawyers (Demmings had been an Orlando police officer for almost 30 years retiring as Police Chief before running for office).
Looks like they were aiming for a diverse group of legal/law enforcement-focused individuals to supplement the Committee Chairs.
Baitball Blogger
(46,763 posts)Lindsay
(3,276 posts)very impressive. She does not put up with BS, and knows it when she hears it.
hibbing
(10,109 posts)jmbar2
(4,909 posts)Nancy - genius!
ancianita
(36,146 posts)Maxheader
(4,374 posts)so the rightwingtards can't bitch about hiding anything...Hopefully the media will play this up and create an atmosphere of certan guilt by dementia boy..
LiberalLovinLug
(14,178 posts)Damn. Since she dropped out of the race, she'd be available no? I kind of soured on her as the nominee, but she's the best at this kind of work.
oasis
(49,426 posts)LiberalLovinLug
(14,178 posts)Makes sense I guess, since they held the impeachment hearings in the House. Would have loved to see her go at them.
oasis
(49,426 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,614 posts)where House managers were appointed to "try" (present) the case as "prosecutors" (or equivalent). The Senate does their own thing as "jurors" to "hear the case".