Orlando's Val Demings Named to Team of House Impeachment Managers
Demings served as the Orlando police chief before joining Congress in 2017.
January 15, 2020 at 11:34 AM
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Former Orlando Police Chief Val Demings is on the team of U.S. House managers named Wednesday by Speaker Nancy Pelosi to prosecute the impeachment case against President Donald Trump in the U.S. Senate.
Demings is a member of both House committees — Intelligence and the Judiciary — that held Trump impeachment hearings.
Nearly all of the managers selected for Democrats have law degrees, and some are former prosecutors.
Demings, the daughter of a Jacksonville-area farmworker and housekeeper, is not an attorney but earned a criminology degree at Florida State University and spent 27 years with the Orlando Police Department.
The Democrat replaced Republican U.S. Rep. Daniel Webster in the seat representing a district stretching from Walt Disney World through downtown Orlando and north to Sorrento in 2017 and was re-elected without opposition.
Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler, who took the lead in the impeachment inquiry, are expected to replicate that performance on the Senate floor.
The House team will face off with Trump's attorneys for the first time in the impeachment proceedings after the White House refused to participate in the process while it was under House Democrats' control. White House counsel Pat Cipollone and Trump's personal attorney Jay Sekulow will reportedly lead the president's defense.
Here are the other House managers:
|Adam Schiff
The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee oversaw the investigation into whether Trump improperly pushed for Ukrainian investigations into the Bidens, a massive undertaking that took the reins of the impeachment inquiry from the Judiciary Committee.
The former federal prosecutor hired Daniel Goldman, a former New York federal prosecutor who questioned witnesses during the closed-door interviews as well as the public hearings. Before joining the U.S. attorney's office for the Central District of California, Schiff clerked for U.S. District Judge William Byrne.
Schiff's closing statements during the public hearings were often powerful and a strong reminder of his prosecutorial past. House Democrats are certain to rely upon such performances as they make their case on the Senate floor.
|Jerry Nadler
The top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee will also get the chance to argue for Trump's removal to the Senate. Impeachment has long been on Nadler's desk, beginning with the Mueller report and his committee's resulting lawsuits, seeking information from the special counsel's investigation.
After the House Intelligence Committee finished its part of the impeachment inquiry, it fell to the Judiciary staff under Nadler's leadership to create and make the legal argument for impeaching Trump. It's likely that Nadler, who has a J.D. from Fordham University, will take up that mantle during the Senate trial.
|Zoe Lofgren
Lofgren is an impeachment veteran: She was a staffer on the House Judiciary Committee during the Nixon impeachment proceedings and later voted on the Clinton impeachment as a congresswoman.
The California Democrat has drawn back on those prior experiences in arguing for Trump's impeachment. She graduated from the Santa Clarita University School of Law and briefly practiced immigration law before entering politics.
|Hakeem Jeffries
The former litigator at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison is a powerful figure as chair of the House Democratic Caucus. Jeffries was tasked with introducing Nancy Pelosi on the House floor last year for her election as speaker, and as a member of the Judiciary Committee questioned witnesses on the merits of impeachment.
Seen as a future leader for Democrats, Jeffries' appointment as a House manager will help him cement that legacy as he argues for Trump's removal on the Senate floor.
|Jason Crow
The former Holland & Hart litigator served as an Army Ranger in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is also a member of the Armed Services Committee.
|Sylvia Garcia
Garcia was the director and presiding judge of the Houston Municipal System before joining congress. She was also the first woman and Hispanic person elected to the Harris County Commissioner's Court.
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