White House Invited to Participate in Impeachment Hearing Next Week
Source: New York Times
By Nicholas Fandos
Nov. 26, 2019, 2:00 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON The House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday invited President Trumps legal team to participate in its first public impeachment hearing next week, when lawmakers plan to convene a panel of constitutional scholars to inform the panels debate over whether the presidents actions amount to high crimes and misdemeanors.
The Judiciary Committee scheduled the hearing, The Impeachment Inquiry into President Donald J. Trump: Constitutional Grounds for Presidential Impeachment, for Dec. 4. Democratic officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity ahead of a formal announcement, did not say who the panel will invite as witnesses, but they said it would feature legal experts who could speak about constitutional precedent and the history of impeachment.
Representative Jerrold Nadler, Democrat of New York and the Judiciary Committee chairman, wrote a letter to the White House on Tuesday notifying him of the hearing and offering his lawyers a chance to question the witnesses.
The initial hearing will likely take place around the same time that the committee receives a written report from the House Intelligence Committee summarizing the findings of its two-month investigation into a pressure campaign on Ukraine by Mr. Trump. The committee is expected to use that report and other, earlier evidence of possible misconduct by the president to draft articles of impeachment in the coming weeks."
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mahatmakanejeeves
(57,359 posts)True Blue American
(17,982 posts)They invited the President,too!
What ever you say about Democrats no one can they are not friendly.
Yall come, now, hear? Bless your heart!
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,359 posts)Lordy, I think I'll have me some grits for breakfast tomorrow morning.
Jarqui
(10,122 posts)Good for them to do this
Does anyone know if these hearings will be public?
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)moreland01
(736 posts)I'd like to watch it on tv like the Schiff hearings.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Given the extremely high ratings for the witness testimony, I expect networks will be eager to broadcast the hearings.
Miguelito Loveless
(4,457 posts)Only guilty people need a legal team. Smart, perfect, very intelligent, presidents come in person, and teach the stupid people a lesson about guilt and innocence.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Then send in the clowns.
The clowns will not fare well.
MontanaMama
(23,297 posts)Don't bother...they're here!
Marcuse
(7,463 posts)NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)After refusing to send their representatives. Nothing they do makes sense.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)And every Republican in Congress so far
Karadeniz
(22,486 posts)Need to hear all the reasons Trump is impeachable.
wnylib
(21,417 posts)Nah, his lawyers are afraid to let him anywhere near the orocess. Besides, Traitor Don wanrs to maintain the fiction that it is beneath his attention.
moonseller66
(430 posts)While there may be some question, it has been discussed that "44" is a Constitutional Lawyer!
Various articles on Google can be read on his position.
Wouldn't that just be the straw that broke the orange back?
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)He'll teach Trump a lesson.
iluvtennis
(19,843 posts)well, heres the chance for him/ his legal team to participate. Ill bet $2 the offer wont be taken by this corrupt cretin who said, I didnt know Giuliani was in Ukraine
Julian English
(434 posts)It'd make the people happy.