House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday announced the seven lawmakers who will serve as impeachment managers to prosecute the case against President Trump in his imminent Senate trial.
As expected she named seven members of her Democratic party.
“This is about the Constitution of the United States,” Pelosi noted, as she presented the Democrats’ legal team and noted that she put an emphasis on “litigators” in assembling them.
The managers include House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler, who spearheaded the House’s impeachment hearings last year.
Others include: Democratic Caucus Chair, Hakeem Jeffries, Rep. Val Demmings, Rep. Sylvia Garcia, Rep. Jason Crow, and Rep. Zoe Lofgren.
During Clinton’s impeachment in 1999, there were 13 House impeachment managers. Pelosi chose seven for Trump’s trial.
Pelosi said: “This is a very serious matter and we take it to heart in a really solemn way,”
“It’s about the Constitution, it’s about the republic, if we can keep it and [senators] shouldn’t be frivolous with the Constitution of the United States even though the president of the United States has.”
“The president is not above the law. He will be held accountable. He already has been held accountable. He has been impeached and you can never erase that.”
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Trump reacted to the announcement in a tweet. He wrote: “Here we go again, another Con Job by the Do Nothing Democrats. All of this work was supposed to be done by the House, not the Senate!”
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