![]() ![]() A former public defender, Cicilline signed on to the article of impeachment days after the 6 January riot. A former civil rights and employment law attorney, has called Trump “one of the greatest threats to the future of our Democracy”.ĭavid Cicilline A Democrat on the House judiciary committee, Cicilline has represented Rhode Island in Congress for the last decade, and before that served as the first openly gay mayor of Providence. ![]() I feel him in my chest,” he told the Guardian.ĭiana DeGette DeGette has represented Denver and some of its suburbs since 1997. I’m a professor of constitutional law, but I did it really with my son in my heart, and helping lead the way. “I’ve devoted my life to the constitution and to the republic. Raskin has pointed to his son as one of the reasons why he chose to take on leading the impeachment effort. Raskin is taking on the role at a time when his family is in mourning – his 25-year-old son Tommy died by suicide on New Year’s Eve. He reportedly began drafting the article of impeachment against the president hours after the attack. A longtime constitutional law professor at American University, Raskin has been unsparing in his criticism of the role Trump played in inciting the 6 January riot. Jamie Raskin The House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, tapped Raskin, a Maryland congressman first elected in 2016, to be the lead House impeachment manager to make the case for convicting Trump. Stephen Castor reportedly recommended his cousin for the job to Trump, according to the New York Times. And in 2008, he made it known that he hung the certificate marking his position as Montgomery county commissioner above his toilet, according to the Inquirer, symbolizing his feelings about the local government.Ĭastor’s cousin is Stephen Castor, who questioned witnesses on behalf of House Republicans during Trump’s first impeachment. In 2015, when reporters came to his home amid scrutiny of the Cosby case, he threatened them. ![]() ![]() Dozens of women would come forward to say Cosby sexually assaulted them and in 2018, Cosby was convicted on three counts of sexually assaulting Constand.Ĭastor, who briefly became Pennsylvania’s acting attorney general during a 2016 scandal, has a flair for the spotlight, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. Castor has said he did not believe he could win the case and secured an agreement from Cosby not to plead the fifth amendment in a civil case. Schoen told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution he considers himself primarily a civil rights lawyer.īruce Castor A former prosecutor in Pennsylvania, Castor is best known for declining to bring sexual assault charges against Bill Cosby when Andrea Constand, a Temple University employee, accused him of drugging and raping her in 2005. In the interview with the Atlanta Jewish Times, he embraced a conspiracy theory, saying he believed Epstein was murdered. After Epstein died by suicide, he told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution he planned to get into the case to fight and win. In 2019, Schoen met with Jeffrey Epstein in jail after Epstein was arrested on sex trafficking charges. “I represented all sorts of reputed mobster figures: alleged head of Russian mafia in this country, Israeli mafia and two Italian bosses, as well a guy the government claimed was the biggest mafioso in the world,” he said. During the same interview, he touted his work defending unsavory clients. He told the Atlanta Jewish Times that Stone, who was eventually, pardoned by Trump was “was very bright, full of personality and flair” and that the case against him was “very unfair and politicized”. He briefly represented Roger Stone, Trump’s longtime ally, during an appeal of Stone’s criminal conviction last year. David Schoen The Georgia-based attorney is no stranger to controversy. ![]()
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