# Jerry Nadler U.S. Representative from New York's 12th district (Manhattan, including the Upper West Side and parts of Brooklyn under post-2022 redistricting), serving since 1992. Chair of the [[House Judiciary Committee]] 2019–2023. ## The first impeachment As Judiciary Chair, Nadler oversaw the formal impeachment process for the [[Trump First Impeachment]] after the [[House Intelligence Committee]] under [[Adam Schiff]] completed the investigative phase. The Judiciary Committee approved the two articles of impeachment along party lines on December 13, 2019. Nadler served as a House manager at the Senate trial in January–February 2020, focused on Article II (Obstruction of Congress). Earlier, Nadler had pursued obstruction-related testimony from Mueller-era witnesses (including a contempt referral against AG William Barr) that established the procedural groundwork for the impeachment inquiry once the Ukraine whistleblower complaint emerged. ## Pre-Trump-era history Nadler is a long-running figure in pre-Trump-era New York politics; opposed the rezoning that produced Trump-branded Riverside South development in the early 1990s. The relationship with Trump as a New York public figure preceded Trump's presidency by roughly thirty years. ## Subsequent role Stepped down from Ranking Member of Judiciary in 2025; succeeded by [[Jamie Raskin]]. ## Related - [[Trump First Impeachment]] - [[Trump Impeachments Timeline]] - [[Mueller Investigation]] - [[Adam Schiff]]