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swag

(26,486 posts)
Tue Nov 26, 2019, 03:12 PM Nov 2019

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 Trump’s 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 panel’s debate over whether the president’s 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."

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/26/us/politics/impeachment-trump-hearing.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

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White House Invited to Participate in Impeachment Hearing Next Week (Original Post) swag Nov 2019 OP
Well, now, that's right neighborly. NT mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2019 #1
What a nice invitation! True Blue American Nov 2019 #10
Isn't it nice to be nice? mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2019 #15
Educate the public on the crime and the law ... Jarqui Nov 2019 #2
Public? moreland01 Nov 2019 #3
Yup - says so in the first sentence. lagomorph777 Nov 2019 #5
On TV? moreland01 Nov 2019 #14
"Public" generally means "on TV" in the 21st century. lagomorph777 Nov 2019 #18
Don't invite the legal team Miguelito Loveless Nov 2019 #4
Let Lawrence Tribe speak first. lagomorph777 Nov 2019 #6
Send in the clowns... MontanaMama Nov 2019 #7
The White House will not dignify this unconstitutional (not really in Article 1:2:5) impeachment. Marcuse Nov 2019 #8
Then they'll complain that they had no representatives NastyRiffraff Nov 2019 #9
he's managed to hold onto the Fox News crowd NewJeffCT Nov 2019 #13
I hope this is televised....tired of the doesn't -rise -to -impeachment -level defense! People Karadeniz Nov 2019 #11
Legal team might show up. The orange traitor? wnylib Nov 2019 #12
There may be a surprise Constitutional Lawyer available, Donny... moonseller66 Nov 2019 #16
Obama is a Professor of Constitutional Law lagomorph777 Nov 2019 #19
trumpty dumpty has been saying there's been no due process for him iluvtennis Nov 2019 #17
Let's just invite the White House to participate in tRump's resignation and flight to Moscow Julian English Nov 2019 #20

True Blue American

(17,982 posts)
10. What a nice invitation!
Tue Nov 26, 2019, 05:06 PM
Nov 2019

They invited the President,too!

What ever you say about Democrats no one can they are not friendly.

Y’all come, now, hear? Bless your heart!

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
18. "Public" generally means "on TV" in the 21st century.
Wed Nov 27, 2019, 10:01 AM
Nov 2019

Given the extremely high ratings for the witness testimony, I expect networks will be eager to broadcast the hearings.

Miguelito Loveless

(4,457 posts)
4. Don't invite the legal team
Tue Nov 26, 2019, 03:42 PM
Nov 2019

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.

NastyRiffraff

(12,448 posts)
9. Then they'll complain that they had no representatives
Tue Nov 26, 2019, 04:07 PM
Nov 2019

After refusing to send their representatives. Nothing they do makes sense.

Karadeniz

(22,486 posts)
11. I hope this is televised....tired of the doesn't -rise -to -impeachment -level defense! People
Tue Nov 26, 2019, 05:31 PM
Nov 2019

Need to hear all the reasons Trump is impeachable.

wnylib

(21,417 posts)
12. Legal team might show up. The orange traitor?
Tue Nov 26, 2019, 05:57 PM
Nov 2019

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)
16. There may be a surprise Constitutional Lawyer available, Donny...
Tue Nov 26, 2019, 08:48 PM
Nov 2019

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?

iluvtennis

(19,843 posts)
17. trumpty dumpty has been saying there's been no due process for him
Tue Nov 26, 2019, 11:04 PM
Nov 2019

well, here’s the chance for him/ his legal team to participate. I’ll bet $2 the offer won’t be taken by this corrupt cretin who said, “I didn’t know Giuliani was in Ukraine”

Julian English

(434 posts)
20. Let's just invite the White House to participate in tRump's resignation and flight to Moscow
Wed Nov 27, 2019, 10:19 AM
Nov 2019

It'd make the people happy.

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