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US politics updates: Donald Trump’s impeachment article sent to the Senate
The impeachment managers
So, who exactly are these impeachment managers we’ll be hearing plenty about over the next few weeks? For one, they’re all Democratic members of the House of Representatives. The nine who were chosen are Jamie Raskin, Diana DeGette, David Cicilline Joaquin Castro, Eric Swalwell, Ted Lieu , Stacey Plaskett, Joe Neguse, and Madeleine Dean.
In short, think of them like the prosecution in a court case. They’ll be arguing the case for why Donald Trump should be convicted.
All of them have a background of some kind in law enforcement or are former prosecutors before they were elected to Congress.
The lead impeachment manager, Jamie Raskin has a rather notable story. In the days before the Capitol Riots, Raskin buried…
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