House Judiciary huddled prepping for Monday's hearing: Consulting with Laurence Tribe & others

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House Judiciary Dems are on Capitol Hill today prepping for what is likely to be a packed and consequential week. Among other things, they are huddling with Laurence H. Tribe, the constitutional law professor at Harvard, to discuss impeachment.

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Norman L. Eisen, one of the Democrats’ special oversight counsels on the Judiciary Committee, is consulting through the weekend with a procession of staff and lawmakers, while Representative Jerrold Nadler, Democrat of New York and the judiciary chairman, has been shuttling in recent days between the work spaces of his committee and the Capitol offices of Speaker Nancy Pelosi. She is the final decision maker on the wording of an expected two to four articles on presidential abuse of power, obstruction of justice and obstruction of Congress, and an accompanying impeachment report that could stretch to hundreds of pages.

“I have 50 emails telling me, ‘Here’s what needs to be in the articles,’ ” said Representative Jamie Raskin, Democrat of Maryland and a member of the Judiciary Committee. “Go broader! Go narrow! Everybody wants to have their say.”

This weekend, as in previous weeks, the Democrats are also holding practice hearings inside the grand Ways and Means committee room, which also serves as the backup House chamber and is kept at a perpetual frosty chill. We’re trying to avoid open-mic night,” said Representative Eric Swalwell, a Democrat of California who is a member of both the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees. On Saturday, they also released a 52-page report, “Constitutional Grounds for Presidential Impeachment,” based on weeks of staff research in dusty files to inform the coming debate.

The latest rehearsals are to prepare for a marathon hearing in the same room beginning on Monday morning. Democratic lawyers for the Judiciary and Intelligence Committees will formally present the case for impeachment to lawmakers, while Republicans will be allowed equal time to rebut them. By the end of the week, the Judiciary Committee is likely to vote on the articles of impeachment, with a final vote on the floor of the House expected shortly before Christmas.

In a previous practice session before a hearing on Wednesday that featured a witness panel of constitutional scholars, Mr. Nadler, wielding his wooden gavel, spent extra time rehearsing again and again how to swiftly dispatch with parliamentary disruptions from Republicans. Joshua Matz, a lawyer brought in by the Democrats to help with impeachment, and Barry H. Berke, a veteran white-collar defense lawyer in New York who also serves as special oversight counsel for the Judiciary Committee, took seats at the witness table to sit in for the academics who would appear there the next day.

[dewsgirl]

1. I'm happy they are consulting with Laurence Tribe, he taught

Obama, Ted Cruz, John Roberts, Elena Kagan , Kathleen Sullivan and many others at Harvard.
He has mentioned a couple times in interviews of course he would love to help and now he is.😊

[Me.]

2. They Are Doing Such A Great Job Of This

Wonderful effort on our behalf. My to them

[Leghorn21]

3. HANG TOUGH, MY DEAR PEOPLE!!!!

***and THANK YOU***