An impeachment manager is a legislator appointed to serve as a

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in an

impeachment trial An impeachment trial is a trial that functions as a component of an impeachment. Several governments utilize impeachment trials as a part of their processes for impeachment, but differ as to when in the impeachment process trials take place and how ...

. They are also often called "House managers" or "House impeachment manager" when appointed from a legislative chamber that is called a "House of Representatives".

United States

Federal

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, which are held before the

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after an

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by the

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, the United States House of Representatives appoints impeachment managers, a committee of members of the House who, together, act as the

s in the impeachment trial. While they are always approved by House vote, how the initial decision of who serves as a managers is arrived at has differed between impeachments. In some impeachments, the House managers have been chosen upon the recommendation of the Chairman of the

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. Another way that has been used is by having the whole house decide by balloting who should serve. In some other impeachment, the

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has chosen the slate of impeachment managers that were thereafter approved by House vote.

State

Some states, such as

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, follow the federal model of having members of the lower chamber of the legislature serve as impeachment managers in impeachment trials held in the upper camber. Impeachment managers were used in impeachments in some of the American colonies during the

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United Kingdom

Impeachment managers were a component of

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, a now-largely obsolete process.

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