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BumRushDaShow

(129,614 posts)
Wed Jan 15, 2020, 11:29 AM Jan 2020

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.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/trump-impeachment-01-15/the-impeachment-managers-are-revealed#live-blog-list

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The impeachment managers are revealed. (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Jan 2020 OP
Elementary schoolyard nicknames to follow in 5 ... 4 ... 3 .... NT mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2020 #1
Shall we henceforth call them "The Magnificent 7" TheRealNorth Jan 2020 #2
Schiff and Nadler were givens Bayard Jan 2020 #3
This is Lofgren's 3rd impeachment BumRushDaShow Jan 2020 #5
Go Val! Baitball Blogger Jan 2020 #4
What I've seen of her has been Lindsay Jan 2020 #6
I like this n/t hibbing Jan 2020 #7
Great choices! jmbar2 Jan 2020 #8
An impeccably professional team of lawyers. May they prevail. ancianita Jan 2020 #9
Let the managers do it by the book... Maxheader Jan 2020 #10
No Kamala Harris? LiberalLovinLug Jan 2020 #11
The impeachment team is limited to House members. nt oasis Jan 2020 #12
Damn. Okay thanks LiberalLovinLug Jan 2020 #13
Senators have a duty to serve as a jurors in the trial. nt oasis Jan 2020 #15
This was a House resolution to send the Impeachment Articles to the Senate BumRushDaShow Jan 2020 #14

TheRealNorth

(9,500 posts)
2. Shall we henceforth call them "The Magnificent 7"
Wed Jan 15, 2020, 11:40 AM
Jan 2020

Although that me a bit presumptuous, if they don't do a good job.

Bayard

(22,172 posts)
3. Schiff and Nadler were givens
Wed Jan 15, 2020, 11:44 AM
Jan 2020

Demings and Jeffries will make very good showings. Don't know much about the others.

BumRushDaShow

(129,614 posts)
5. This is Lofgren's 3rd impeachment
Wed Jan 15, 2020, 12:06 PM
Jan 2020

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.

Lindsay

(3,276 posts)
6. What I've seen of her has been
Wed Jan 15, 2020, 12:10 PM
Jan 2020

very impressive. She does not put up with BS, and knows it when she hears it.

Maxheader

(4,374 posts)
10. Let the managers do it by the book...
Wed Jan 15, 2020, 02:29 PM
Jan 2020

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)
11. No Kamala Harris?
Wed Jan 15, 2020, 03:20 PM
Jan 2020

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.

LiberalLovinLug

(14,178 posts)
13. Damn. Okay thanks
Wed Jan 15, 2020, 03:32 PM
Jan 2020

Makes sense I guess, since they held the impeachment hearings in the House. Would have loved to see her go at them.

BumRushDaShow

(129,614 posts)
14. This was a House resolution to send the Impeachment Articles to the Senate
Wed Jan 15, 2020, 03:34 PM
Jan 2020

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".

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