Norm Eisen Says He Drafted 10 Articles Of Impeachment A Month Before Inquiry
By Ari Shapiro
All Things Considered, ยท When Democrats took back the House of Representatives in 2018, the Judiciary Committee hired Norm Eisen to be special counsel.
He'd been a White House ethics czar and a U.S. ambassador to the Czech Republic during the Obama administration. And when he showed up to work for Congress, he started preparing for the possibility that the House might impeach President Trump.
Less than a year later, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced an official impeachment inquiry.
Eisen's new book, A Case for the American People: The United States v. Donald J. Trump, describes this moment in time through the House vote to impeach Trump and the Senate trial, which ended in acquittal.
And the book reveals that Eisen had drafted 10 articles of impeachment a month before Pelosi's announcement.
"The speaker is a pretty savvy monitor of everything that goes on in Congress. So, I don't think it will come as a surprise to her," Eisen told NPR.