HOUSE OF REPS/IMPEACHMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee asked President Trump on Friday [11-29-19] whether he intends to mount a defense during the committee’s consideration of impeachment articles, setting a deadline of next Friday [12-6-19] for Mr. Trump and his lawyers to decide if they will present evidence or call witnesses. In a letter to the president, Representative Jerrold Nadler, Democrat of New York and the committee chairman, said Mr. Trump has the right to review the evidence against him, ask questions of his accusers during public hearings that begin next week and present evidence and request witness testimony…Mr. Nadler’s panel will begin examining next week whether Mr. Trump abused the power of his office by pressuring Ukraine for politically beneficial investigations of his political rivals, and whether the president obstructed the congressional inquiry by refusing to provide documents and by blocking witnesses from testifying.”
–Michael D. Shear, “House Judiciary Panel Asks Trump if He Will Present Impeachment Defense,” The New York Times online, November 29, 2019