QQOTD: Hakeem Jeffries and Lamar Alexander
“With President Trump, the past is prologue.” ~ Hakeem Jeffries , Closing Argument in the day 12 of the Senate Impeachment Trial of Donald J.Trump (Approximately 45 minutes into the session) Jeffries has been the U.S. Representative for New York’s 8th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party , his district covers parts of the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens . A corporate lawyer by occupation he worked for Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison , then Viacom and CBS , before running for and serving in the New York State Assembly from 2007 to 2012, representing the 57th Assembly District. Jeffries has also chaired the House Democratic Caucus since 2019 and, on January 15, 2020, was appointed by Speaker Nancy Pelosi to serve as a House Manager for Donald Trump’s Impeachment Trial . “Hopefully he won’t do that again.” ( The Atlantic ) ~ Senator Lamar Alexander , on 31 January 2020, after announcing he would vote to ac