Four weeks after the US House of Representatives impeached President Donald Trump, Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday named managers for the Senate trial which is likely to begin next week.
Congressman Adam Schiff, chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, has been named as the lead manager.
The other managers who would be part of the argument on behalf of the House as the Senate holds its trial, which is likely to begin on January 21, are Congressman Jerry Nadler, chair of the House Judiciary Committee; Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren, chairwoman of the House Committee on House Administration; Congressman Hakeem Jeffries, Chairman of the House Democratic and Congresswoman Val Demings, a member of both the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Judiciary Committee.
"This is about the Constitution of the United States, and it's important the president to know, and Putin to know, the American voter, voters in America should decide who our president is, not that of a Putin — in Russia," Pelosi told reporters at a news conference here.
"So today I'm very proud to present the managers who will bring the case, which we have great confidence in in terms of impeaching the president and his removal. "But this further evidence insists that — and we wouldn't be in this situation had we not waited — there be witnesses and that we see documentation. And now you see some of that change happening on the Senate side. I hope it does, for the good of our country and to honour our Constitution," she said.