Opposing Sides to Make Impeachment Cases

Judiciary panel to hear evidence for and against impeaching President Trump.

Democrats and Republicans will make their opposing cases at the start of a crucial week in the House Judiciary Committee, which is expected to release and vote on articles of impeachment aimed at President Trump as soon as this week.

Committee lawyers for each side— Barry Berke for Democrats and Steve Castor for Republicans—will present opening arguments at a Monday hearing at which evidence will be formally presented. Democratic and Republican lawyers for the House Intelligence Committee, Daniel Goldman and Mr. Castor respectively, will also be on hand to discuss competing committee reports about Mr. Trump’s efforts to enlist Ukraine to announce investigations that could benefit him politically.

“What is important about [Monday] is the clear story of what has emerged from these multiple witnesses despite the president obstructing in an unprecedented way,” said Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D., Wash.), who spent the weekend behind closed doors with other Judiciary Committee Democrats to prepare for the Monday hearing.

Mr. Trump has said there was nothing inappropriate in his interactions with Ukraine, and he and his fellow Republicans have dismissed the investigation as a sham. GOP Rep. Mark Meadows (N.C.) said Sunday on CNN that Democrats’ only goal was “a partisan impeachment of the president of the United States.”

The coming weeks will be a crucial test for America’s political institutions, implicating both Mr. Trump’s tenure and the terms under which Congress may remove a president from office. Only two presidents in history— Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton —have been impeached; neither was convicted by the Senate. Richard Nixon resigned before the House could vote on impeaching him.