(January 16, 2020 at 7:43 am)onlinebiker Wrote:(January 16, 2020 at 6:15 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: It helps to think of impeachment managers as prosecutors. They are ALWAYS chosen from the party bringing the impeachment. The Republicans in the Senate will appoint their own impeachment managers (you can think of those as the counsel for the defense).
Boru
It helps if you think of the whole thing as politically motivated - as it is - and not some high minded enforcement of the law - which it isn't.
Pelosi likes pretending she isn't partisan. If she wasn't she could have at least a token ( R ) on her team.
Her idea of "bi-partisan" is for a bunch of ( R )s to spontaneously switch sides....
Impeachment is a political process. It is only tangentially a legal one in that it has the force of law.
But why would she include Republicans anyway (as if any of them would agree to it)? The whole point of her impeachment managers is to present the case against the President. What you're looking for is akin to requiring a legal team prosecuting for murder to hire attorneys who think the defendant is innocent.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
