Establishment hope Hakeem Jeffries moves onstage in the Democrats’ fight to impeach Trump
ON JAN. 15, WHEN SEVEN HOUSE DEMOCRATIC lawmakers marched under the ornate Capitol dome to deliver articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump to the U.S. Senate, Representative Hakeem Jeffries was the one in the third row, on the left. As an impeachment manager, Jeffries is arguing before the 100 Senators turned jurors why the two charges the House brought against the President in December—abusing the power of his office by allegedly withholding aid to Ukraine in exchange for extracting a promise of a politically beneficial investigation, and obstructing Congress as it tried to probe it—warrant his conviction and removal from office. As only the third presidential impeachment trial in the nation’s history, it is by definition a gravely historic event.
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