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An impeachment manager is a legislator appointed to serve as a
prosecutor in an
impeachment trial. They are also often called "House managers" or "House impeachment manager" when appointed from a legislative chamber that is called a "House of Representatives".
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
House Committee on the Judiciary.[2] Another way that has been used is by having the whole house decide by balloting who should serve.[3] In some other impeachment, the
speaker of the House has chosen the slate of impeachment managers that were thereafter approved by House vote.[4]
State
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 camber.