Posted on 01/15/2020 7:36:42 AM PST by COUNTrecount
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced on Wednesday that Reps. Jerrold Nadler and Adam Schiff will be among the impeachment managers who will press the House’s case against President Trump during a Senate trial.
“Today is the day that we name the managers, we go to the floor to pass the resolution to transmit the articles of impeachment to the Senate,” she said.
Nadler, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, and Schiff, the head of the House Intelligence Committee, played crucial roles in the House’s impeachment inquiry into Trump last fall.
Others include Reps. Zoe Lofgren, Hakeem Jeffries and Val Demmings, Jason Crow, Sylvia Garcia.
The House managers are expected to personally deliver the articles to the Senate later Wednesday.
White House counsel Pat Cipollone and Jay Sekulow, Trump’s personal lawyer, will lead Trump’s defense.
Pelosi’s announcement comes just hours before the House will vote on releasing the two articles of impeachment – for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress – to Senate so a trial can get underway.
The speaker has been holding up delivering the articles since the House voted on Dec. 18 to pressure Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to release the framework of how a trial would be conducted, call witnesses to testify and not hold a vote to dismiss.
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WHAT A BUCH OF CLOWNS?
I will bet you these two try to bring in a team of REAL lawyers to do the work. The lawyers will hand these two 3x5 cards with what to say and ask.
Over before it starts.
I expect some EPIC videos from this.
That was my first thought as well: affirmative action in action, with plenty of Hakeems and Zoës and Garcias in the mix. Fab-U-luss.
Subjected to real fire from Senators like Ted Cruz and Tom cotton, unprotected by Rat favoring partisan rules, they will melt like cheap candles.
No worries. I’ve been told many times the Dems are bluffing and impeachment will never leave the House.
Would be extremely funny if the resolution to pass the articles to the Senate failed to pass. Then what?
What happened to the necessity of speed?
I muted the whole thing. I can’t stand to hear the demented old lady cackle.
Cocaine Mitch CANNOT BE TRUSTED.
Paul Sperry@paulsperry_
Is POTUS walking into a trap in the Senate?
9:59 PM · Jan 14, 2020
Nancy couldn’t bend the Turtle so she threw in the towel. Some standoff.
And the Dems have already announced that there will be additional investigations. At some point we the people will have to recognize that the House is in anti-American hands and they intend to bring down the country through endless investigations and harassment.
This is a perfect identity politics Democrat clown show. They have three women, two blacks, one hispanic, one muslim, and two old white men who are clearly morons. They even found an Army Ranger. I’m sure that at least one of them is a queer, but I’m not sure which ones are.
unreal how they stand before media and each speak lies. God help them because they are digging themselves bigger holes/deeper delusion to try to push upon the public, and squishies in the senate.
That is why she named both Schiff and nadler. It will be harder to call them now, but not impossible. I doubt that you will see them on the floor at all.
I am looking forward to this sooooo much.
When neither of these two can set specious rules or gavel people quiet, they will get RUINED.
Can we still say PWNED?
They could keep holding it up but they don’t look good coming before the bar of the Senate.
Subpoena Schiff and Nadler as witnesses.
Then they can’t be managers.
So, gotta get sum wimmuns and folks of color in there....Maxine, Al Green? I’m guessing Nancy won’t reward The Squad, but who knows?
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