Trial-ready: Pelosi faces choice on impeachment prosecutors

[Judi Lynn]

Laurie Kellman, Associated Press
Updated 11:40 pm CST, Thursday, December 12, 2019

WASHINGTON (AP) — There's a campaign going on in Washington that even the most garrulous members of Congress aren't eager to talk about: to be part of a team of uncertain size, with a risky mission, to be named by a leader who isn't talking about what she's looking for or when she'll decide.

Welcome to the race within the House to win a spot on the Democratic team that will prosecute the impeachment case against President Donald Trump. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is the sole decider, but offered no hints Thursday as the impeachment saga accelerated toward an expected vote next week by the full House — and in January, a Senate trial.

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But they'll have to be the right people, by Pelosi's measure, to press the Democrats' case that they are defending the Constitution against a president who put betrayed his oath by pushing a foreign country to help him in the 2020 elections.

The impeachment managers will have to withstand the scrutiny and risk of prosecuting the case against Trump from the floor of the Republican-held Senate, before a global audience. And be willing to face the near-certainty of defeat, as the Senate appears unlikely to convict and remove Trump from office.

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