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Earlier today, the House passed a resolution naming our Impeachment Managers in the upcoming Senate trial. Here is a quick look at their backgrounds. #DefendOurDemocracy
.@RepAdamSchiff, our Lead Manager, is Chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence. As a federal prosecutor, Chairman Schiff prosecuted the first federal FBI agent ever to be indicted for espionage. #DefendOurDemocracy
.@RepJerryNadler is Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee – and previously served 13 years as the top Democrat on the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties. #DefendOurDemocracy
.@RepZoeLofgren is Chairwoman of the Committee on House Administration. Chairwoman Lofgren previously served as a staffer for a Judicary Committee Member in the Nixon impeachment & as a Member of the Judiciary Committee herself during the Clinton impeachment. #DefendOurDemocracy
.@RepJeffries, the Chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, is a Member of the Judiciary Committee and a former litigator. #DefendOurDemocracy
.@RepValDemings is a Member of both the Intelligence and Judiciary committees and a 27-year veteran of the Orlando Police Department.
.@RepJasonCrow is a Member of the House Armed Services Committee, a former U.S. Army Ranger and former litigator. #DefendOurDemocracy
.@RepSylviaGarcia is a Member of the House Judiciary Committee and the former Director and Presiding Judge of the Houston Municipal System. #DefendOurDemocracy
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Nancy Pelosi
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Our Founders put safeguards in the Constitution to protect against a rogue president. They never imagined that they would at the same time have a rogue leader in the Senate who would cowardly abandon his duty to uphold the Constitution.
President Trump was impeached with the support of a majority of the American people – a first in our nation’s history. And now he is the first President in history to face a bipartisan vote to convict him in the Senate.
The President will boast that he has been acquitted. There can be no acquittal without a trial, and no trial without witnesses, documents and evidence.
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Nancy Pelosi
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Over the past few weeks, the American people have heard the testimony of truly patriotic career public servants, distinguished diplomats and decorated war heroes. The facts presented are uncontested. The President has engaged in abuse of power.
The President’s abuse of power undermined our national security and jeopardized the integrity of our elections. His actions are in defiance of both the vision of our founders and his own oath of office.
The President is a continuing threat to our democracy and leaves us no choice but to act. I am asking our Chairmen to proceed with articles of impeachment. #DefendOurDemocracy
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Nancy Pelosi
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.@realDonaldTrump and Republicans in Washington want you to think Democrats can’t walk and chew gum at the same time.

But we’ve been fighting #ForThePeople since Day One.

The House-passed legislation piling up outside @SenateMajLdr McConnell’s office proves it.
@realDonaldTrump @senatemajldr The scores of bills we’ve passed aren’t busy work.

If passed into law, they will improve the lives of Americans across the country & build a better future for generations to come.

But the @SenateGOP has made the cynical decision to ignore it all.
Some key examples?

H.R. 7, the #PaycheckFairness Act, would ensure equal pay for women nationwide.

Meanwhile, the #ForThePeople Act would enact the most ambitious set of democracy reforms and ethics standards in a generation.
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Brandi Buchman
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At the moment, I am perched high above the House floor where a small group of spectators have already taken their seats to watch today's vote to formally transmit the articles of #impeachment from the House to the Senate.
I'll have the coverage for @CourthouseNews. Stay tuned!
@CourthouseNews Lawmakers are trickling into the chamber and I spy with my little eye, a group of newly-minted impeachment managers: Schiff, Jeffries, Demings....
@CourthouseNews Speaker Pelosi, donning a bright coral-hued ensemble, has entered the chamber & is seated next to Schiff. A friendly convo appears to be unfolding between the Speaker, Schiff, Demings and I believe that is Sylvia Garcia (her face is turned away, I can't get a great look at her)
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BREAKING: Speaker Pelosi announces impeachment managers for US Senate trial against President Trump: Reps. Nadler, Schiff, Crow, Demings, Jeffries, Lofgren and Sylvia Garcia.
Speaker Pelosi says House Intel Cmte. Chairman Schiff will be the lead manager for the impeachment trial against President Trump.
Live now on @MSNBC:

@AriMelber anchors coverage of the impeachment process this morning.
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Manu Raju
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Pelosi doesn't say this morning that getting what Dems consider a "fair" trial is a requirement for turning over the articles. I asked her if that's the requirement, and she said that they "would hope" to get a fair trial.
The process looks like this: Schumer and McConnell cut a deal. Then, the House passes a resolution naming the impeachment managers who will prosecute the case in the Senate. And then after the House resolution is adopted, the articles would be transmitted to the Senate.
But the question is what happens if Schumer and McConnell can’t cut a deal. The two meet later today
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Brandi Buchman
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Good morning. Here is Don McGahn jamming on stage at MGM this weekend with Winger. h/t @playbookplus.

And I dug around a bit. I had no idea.
washingtonian.com/2019/07/31/i-w…
While we are on the subject of Mr. McGahn: Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson in Washington is expected to rule today in a lawsuit by House lawmakers that has sought to compel McGahn's testimony related to obstruction counts in Mueller probe. If lawmakers win today...
and if the judge says WH aides/staff are compelled to testify and obey Congress, the ruling would have major implications for any witness testimony moving forward in the impeachment process.
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There is ALOT of arguing about the legal #Impeachment process, so I thought I would lay the steps out for you.

Regarding the #ImpeachTrump campaign,
I am not the right person to answer if the laws are being followed by The House against the impeachment of @POTUS
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The Constitution lays out two specific actions, treason and bribery, that could lead to impeachment and removal of a president from office.

Then there is a broader category to accuse a president of a crime, although that category is more vague.
High crimes and misdemeanors
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High crimes and misdemeanors and NOT defined in the Constitution.

▫First, an impeachment resolution must be introduced by a member of the House of Representatives.
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.@RepAdamSchiff is 2-0 so far on #impeachment. dailysign.al/33d4Hvy via @FredLucasWH @DailySignal
@RepAdamSchiff @FredLucasWH @DailySignal The Calif Democrat is 2-0 on the impeachment battlefield so far, after leading a panel that secured House impeachments of two federal judges in 2009 and 2010, respectively. One judge’s ouster was completed over a month’s time, while the process for the other took two years
@RepAdamSchiff @FredLucasWH @DailySignal Schiff also led the prosecution team in the Senate trials, which saw one judge removed from office and the other resign before the trial got far. Only 15 federal judges in U.S. history have been impeached, and Schiff played a key role in two of those cases.
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