Impeachment manager

In federal impeachment trials in the United States, which are held before the United States Senate after an impeachment by the United States House of Representatives, the United States House of Representatives appoints impeachment managers, a committee of members of the House who, together, act as the prosecutors in the impeachment trial.

[1] 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.

[3] In some other impeachments, the speaker of the House has chosen the slate of impeachment managers that were thereafter approved by House vote.

[4] Some states, such as Pennsylvania,[5] 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 chamber.

In some states, such as California and Indiana, all articles of impeachment must be authored by impeachment managers who will then prosecute those articles.