Elie Mystal, Justice writer for the Nation on Democracy Now re impeachment

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https://www.democracynow.org/2020/1/16/articles_of_impeachment_trump_senate_trial

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AMY GOODMAN: Take us through the day.

ELIE MYSTAL: It’s all going down now, isn’t it? I think that, look, Nancy Pelosi named the impeachment managers. She formally submitted the impeachment articles to the Senate. Trump is impeached, as Nancy Pelosi put it, forever. Right? Impeachment now, impeachment tomorrow, impeachment forever. That is on Trump’s résumé for the rest of history. I hope he sleeps well tonight.

With the naming of the managers, however, I think we have a sense of Pelosi’s strategy here. If Nancy Pelosi really thought that this was just going to be a fait accompli in the Senate, that it was just going to be 51 votes to acquit Trump, nothing was going to change that, and it was just kind of for show, I think she might have named impeachment managers that were more for show. Right? Justin Amash, the Republican-turned-“I now get it” guy, like he might have been thrown in there. You might have thrown in Eric Swalwell, who is great on television and great at making speeches. You might have even thrown in Rashida Tlaib, just to be like, “Let’s do this.” Right? Instead, she went in a different direction. She picked people with real courtroom trial experience, right? Jason Crow from Colorado, that’s a litigator that she threw up in there. Val Demings from Florida, that is a law enforcement officer that she —