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Politics & Government

Stacey Plaskett: Trump Trial Needed 'More Senators With Spines, Not More Witnesses'

2:00pm February 14, 2021

Plaskett, a House manager in former President Trump's Senate trial, defends the decision not to call witnesses. "As all Americans believed at that moment, the evidence was overwhelming," she says.

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Trump's 2nd Impeachment Trial Is Over. What Was Accomplished, And What's Next?

11:47am February 14, 2021

by Lulu Garcia-Navarro

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with House Impeachment Manager Stacey Plaskett, congresswoman from the U.S. Virgin Islands, about Saturday's last-second maneuvers and the former president's acquittal.

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Del. Stacey Plaskett, D-U.S. Virgin Islands, speaks Wednesday during former President Donald Trump's second impeachment trial. She argued that Trump was "singularly responsible" for the Jan. 6 attack at the U.S. Capitol and that he should be convicted and

Stacey Plaskett Is 1st Nonvoting House Delegate To Argue An Impeachment Trial

10:27pm February 10, 2021

by Brakkton Booker

She touched on her unlikely journey from projects in Brooklyn, N.Y., to St. Croix, the U.S. Virgin Islands, "and now as an adult woman representing an island territory speaking to the U.S. Senate."

House impeachment manager Del. Stacey Plaskett, D-Virgin Islands, drew a stark comparison between the Americans who "sacrificed their lives for love of country, honor, duty" by stopping foreign terrorists from striking the Capitol on 9/11, and the insurge

Impeachment Manager Plaskett Says Trump Mob Did What 9/11 Terrorists Failed To Do

6:37pm February 10, 2021

by Vanessa Romo

"Almost everyday I remember that 44 Americans gave their lives to stop the plane that was headed to this Capitol building," she said. "The capitol stands because of people like that."