Pelosi Names Impeachment Managers For Trump's Senate Trial
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi named seven Democratic members of Congress as the managers to argue the case for President Trump's impeachment before the Senate, beginning next week.
Pelosi appointed Reps. Adam Schiff, Jerry Nadler, Zoe Lofgren, Val Demings, Hakeem Jeffries, Sylvia Garcia and Jason Crow as impeachment managers. Pelosi said Schiff will be the lead manager.
"The emphasis is on litigators, the emphasis is on comfort level in the courtroom, the emphasis is making the strongest possible case to protect and defend our Constitution, to seek the truth for the American people," Pelosi said, explaining the choices.
The seven managers bring a diverse range of experience. Schiff and Nadler led the impeachment process in the House. Lofgren is taking part in her third impeachment; she was a staffer when the House Judiciary Committee voted out articles of impeachment against President Nixon, and a committee member during President Clinton's and Trump's impeachment. Demings is a former Orlando chief of police and is also a member of the House intelligence committee; Garcia is a former Houston municipal judge, and Crow is a former Army Ranger who served in Iraq and Afghanistan and was a co-author of a letter making the case for Congress to begin impeachment proceedings.
https://www.npr.org/2020/01/15/796240568/house-set-to-vote-to-send-trump-impeachment-articles-to-senate
