Impeachment Managers announced (midweek impeachment news)

[carmenere]

www.politico.com/news/2020/01/15/pelosi-appoints-impeachment-managers-for-trumps-senate-trial-099240

Speaker Nancy Pelosi has appointed a team of seven House Democrats to serve as prosecutors in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial.

She named Reps. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), Jason Crow (D-Colo.), Val Demings (D-Fla.) and Sylvia Garcia (D-Texas) as managers.

I am excited about Demings. She was impressive during the hearings and I bet she'll do a great job with the trial.

[thejackpot]

I love her! She is stellar!

[ESF]

Great team. I could see Val Demings being a VP pick because she has so much to offer. I think it's great she's getting elevated.

[smock]

The group could hardly look more different from the 13 white men who prosecuted former President Bill Clinton in 1999. Pelosi’s team includes three women and four men, as well as two members of the Congressional Black Caucus and a member of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.

This is a great reminder of how much the Democratic party had changed in the last two decades--it matters who we elect and who we elevate to positions of power in the party.

[heat40]

Fantastic group. Their backgrounds are so strong.
Former prosecutors, a judge, former chief of police, and impeachment experience.

[Vespasia]

I'm so sad Elijah Cummings isn't alive to participate. I mean, I am sad he passed away for a lot of reasons but he was incredible in the Oversight hearings.

[maddiepaddy]

I’m kinda surprised by Nadler. I thought he did an awful job presiding over his hearings - especially when compared with Schiff.

[carmenere]

Jan 15, 2020 12:07:49 GMT -5 maddiepaddy said:

I’m kinda surprised by Nadler. I thought he did an awful job presiding over his hearings - especially when compared with Schiff.

Agreed, but I guess since the articles came out of his committee it makes sense. Hopefully he won't be front and center and will let others do most of the presenting.

[heat40]

Wow. The ritual of it all is just wow. Anyone else watching?

[livinitup]

Jan 15, 2020 17:39:24 GMT -5 heat40 said:

Wow. The ritual of it all is just wow. Anyone else watching?

So many pens.

[WOT?*]

Val Demings calls for McConnell's recusal.

www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/impeachment-manager-val-demings-has-called-for-mcconnells-recusal-from-senate-trial/ar-BBZ01JM?ocid=spartandhp

And a story on The Pens. www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/pen-t-up-anger-republicans-pounce-on-pelosi-over-ceremonial-writing-tools/ar-BBYZQ2g?ocid=spartandhp
Remember this little gem?

In fact, as Guardian political reporter Lauren Gambino pointed out, commemorative pens were used in a very analogous situation in the late 1990s: the impeachment of Bill Clinton. In that case, senators who signed a pledge to be impartial received pens that accidentally dubbed them “Untied States senators”.

Well, we've certainly become Untied over the past several decades so there's that.

[suburbanzookeeper]

The House managers are in the senate and are presenting the articles. Here we go!

[miniroller]

These are the cards that have been distributed to Repub Senators for dealing with the press (per CBS news):

[cville]

Jan 16, 2020 12:18:21 GMT -5 miniroller said:

These are the cards that have been distributed to Repub Senators for dealing with the press (per CBS news):

I am deeply confused by the need for this card. For, like, any functioning adult.

[tiramisu]

Jan 16, 2020 12:22:38 GMT -5 cville said:

Jan 16, 2020 12:18:21 GMT -5 miniroller said:

These are the cards that have been distributed to Repub Senators for dealing with the press (per CBS news):

I am deeply confused by the need for this card. For, like, any functioning adult.

Truly, this makes me think of something we would've used with the kids and teens at my last job. Not for (alleged) adults.

[WOT?*]

Jan 16, 2020 12:18:21 GMT -5 miniroller said:

These are the cards that have been distributed to Repub Senators for dealing with the press (per CBS news):

Apparently they need to be told how to interact with others rather than just shove past with a "get the fuck out of my way!" 

[Deleted]

Ken Starr and Alan Dershowitz are joining Trump’s legal time.

They must have performed well on Fox for him.

[rupertpenny]

Ken Starr already lost one impeachment, let's hope the trend continues.