A House Impeachment Manager Talks Resilience After the Insurrection
Rep. Stacey Plaskett is one of the prosecutors overseeing Trump’s trial
The Virgin Islands, like all U.S. territories, did not have a vote when it came to certifying the next president of the United States. But it certainly has a voice now that Rep. Stacey Plaskett sits as an impeachment manager for the trial of outgoing president Donald J. Trump.
The Brooklyn-born Plaskett, whose parents moved from the Virgin Islands to New York, says this appointment — by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — was unexpectedly perfect. The former New York prosecutor would not specify details of how she and the other impeachment managers will handle Trump’s upcoming trial, but Plaskett said she’s ready.
“The significance to me, personally, is feeling like the culmination of a lot of the work that I’ve done over my life,” Plaskett told ZORA via Zoom. Her experience on the Hill and as a lawyer prepared her for moments like this, where she and eight other legislators will serve as prosecutors when the trial goes to the Senate. “I was once a member of the Bronx district attorney’s office, where you get a week of training and then are thrown into a courtroom.”
To hear Plaskett tell it, moving forward, the case has the potential to move…
