IMPEACHMENT/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The White House is reviewing an invitation from House Democrats for President Trump’s legal team to participate in the first Judiciary Committee impeachment hearing next week, even as his lawyers privately question whether to engage with a proceeding his administration branded ‘an illegitimate sham partisan process’ to drive Mr. Trump from office. Representative Jerrold Nadler, Democrat of New York and the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, wrote to the president on Tuesday offering him or his lawyers the opportunity to appear before lawmakers at a Dec. 4 hearing with constitutional scholars to discuss the historical precedents for impeachment, the definition of an impeachable offense and whether Mr. Trump’s actions meet the bar for removal.”
–Michael D. Shear, “Trump Lawyers, Skeptical of Engaging on Impeachment, Weigh Hearing Strategy,” The New York Times online, November 27, 2019