What to expect during the House Judiciary Committee’s first impeachment hearing

The House Judiciary Committee takes over the impeachment inquiry with a hearing on impeachable offenses.

The impeachment hearings are not over, they are simply moving to a different House committee.

Following two weeks of public hearings in the impeachment inquiry led by the House Intelligence Committee, on Wednesday the House Judiciary Committee is picking up where their fellow lawmakers left off with a hearing defining impeachable offenses.

The move from one committee to the other marks an important shift: It means lawmakers are now less concerned with gathering evidence of potential wrongdoing by President Donald Trump and more interested in deciding what that evidence means and whether it is enough to write and vote on articles of impeachment.

The formal handoff follows a Tuesday evening vote in the Intelligence Committee on a report summarizing that committee’s findings. The House Judiciary Committee has begun to review that report and will use it as a blueprint for drafting its articles of impeachment.

Essentially, Wednesday’s hearing is the first step in turning an impeachment inquiry into an impeachment.

The first Judiciary Committee impeachment hearing is set to begin Wednesday, December 4, at 10 am ET. Vox will stream it live on both Facebook and Twitter.