Plaskett knew she did well Wednesday, as this post-hearing tweet shows.
There are quite a few articles about her, like this one from Vogue’s Stuart Emmrich, which calls her a “breakout star” of the trial.
As she began her presentation, Plaskett, 54, who was born in Brooklyn to parents from the Virgin Islands, spoke of the journey that had brought her to this historic day. “I’ve learned throughout my life that preparation and truth can carry you far, can allow you to speak truth to power,” she said. “I’ve learned that as a young Black girl growing up in the projects in Brooklyn, a housing community on St. Croix, sent to the most unlikeliest of settings and now as an adult woman representing an island territory speaking to the U.S. Senate.”
Plaskett graduated from Georgetown University with a degree in history and diplomacy and from American University’s Washington College of Law. Later, she worked as an assistant district attorney in the Bronx, as counsel to the House ethics committee, and as a political appointee at the Justice Department under President George W. Bush.
She can’t vote because the USVI is a territory, but she sure is doing a damned good job of representing the democratic principles of this republic.
Here are a few tweets about Plaskett in the wake of her presentation.
Some folks might have forgotten Plaskett’s participation in last year’s impeachment, but the visuals became a Black Twitter meme.
In case you missed it, here’s the footage, courtesy of PBS Newshour.
All I have to say after that is “Right on, Sister!”
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