Another brilliant decision by Nancy Pelosi: the appointment of Stacey Plaskett as a House Manager

[Stinky The Clown]

She is the Congresswoman from the USVI, one of six such non voting reps of US territories.

She was just on Politics Nation. She was remarking on how appropriate it was, symbolically, a representative of the millions of unrepresented American citizens gets to prosecute the impeachment of a miscreant president.

[drray23]

1. no she does not get to vote.

First off, she is not a senator, she is an impeachment manager ftom the house. Secondly and she was very eloquent on that neither her or her constituants get to vote. She does not vote in congress either.

[Stinky The Clown]

2. Thanks for answering my post

[obamanut2012]

7. The OP literally said all of that

[George II]

8. She's one of the House Managers, i.e., prosecutors. She isn't expecting to vote, but she sure can...

....help put together the case.

None of the Managers will vote, they're all Representatives. Only Senators will wind up voting.

[drray23]

10. oh absolutely. its good Nancy Pelosi gave her that opportunity.

its a perfect way to highlight the fact some citizens have no representation. Maybe Pelosi is prepping the grounds for a push to statehood for those who want it.

[niyad]

3. KNR

[iluvtennis]

4. DC, US Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico need to be provided statehood. It hasn't happened

because the populations are majority of brown/black/other minorities.

[llashram]

5. ALWAYS truth

in America

[James48]

6. Time for statehood

For DC , for Puerto Rico (both have held votes supporting statehood) , and consideration of statehood for any other US possession or territory that expresses an interest in it.

This needs to be a priority in 2021. Statehood in 2021 for AT LEAST DC and PR.

[Hortensis]

9. So USVI's nonvoting rep will be on the impeachment team. Terrific!

Thanks, Stinky.

[Baked Potato]

11. Agreed, good move.