Impeachment managers: What do they do, and whom will Nancy Pelosi pick? by alexnazaryan
WASHINGTON — With the House of Representatives expected to vote affirmatively on two articles of impeachment against President Trump, Speaker Nancy Pelosi now faces the task of choosing “impeachment managers” from the chamber’s ranks.
An impeachment manager should be “someone with experience building a case factually,” according to Kim Wehle, author of “How to Read the Constitution — and Why.” As a young attorney, Wehle worked with Kenneth Starr on what eventually became the Bill Clinton impeachment inquiry. “You would need a trial lawyer,” Wehle says. Someone who can show “how the story unfolds” instead of merely recite a litany of facts.
That will make the task of the managers all the more important. With the nation watching the first Senate trial of a sitting president in two decades, the managers will become the impeachment inquiry’s public face. Rogan vowed to use the same briefcase during the impeachment trial that he had used during this prosecution of gang members in Los Angeles decades before. Nicknamed the Brown Beast and subject to much press attention, the briefcase attained a modicum of celebrity and was eventually acquired by the Smithsonian Institution.
Wehle, the former Starr assistant counsel, thinks that for all his fluency with the facts of the case against Trump, Schiff is not best equipped to sell that case to skeptical Republicans, not to mention a wary American public. “A good trial lawyer is someone who is relatable to people,” Wehle says. “It wouldn’t be Adam Schiff.”
A spokeswoman for Pelosi declined to speak on the record about the selection of impeachment managers. But the speaker’s closely held deliberations have only heightened speculation in Washington. She also alluded to “America’s complicated history” and her own enslaved ancestors before alighting on a point that seemed to have nothing and everything to do with Trump: “My faith is in the U.S. Constitution.” While this was a departure from the usual impeachment fare, Americans hardly punished Demings. A video clip of that statement became a Twitter sensation and has been viewed 600,000 times.Rep.
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