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WASHINGTON, Dec. 2-- The U.S. House Judiciary Committee unveiled on Monday the four legal experts for its first hearing as part of an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. The hearing, scheduled for Wednesday, will feature testimony from Noah Feldman, a professor at Harvard Law School and director of the Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law; Pamela Karlan, a professor of public interest law at Stanford Law School; Michael Gerhardt, a professor at the University of North Carolina School of Law; and Jonathan Turley, a professor of public interest law at George Washington University Law School, according to the House Judiciary Committee. "We expect to discuss the constitutional framework through which the House may analyze the evidence gathered in the present inquiry," the Committee's Chairman Jerry Nadler said in a letter to Trump last week. The New York Democrat also said they will discuss whether Trump's alleged actions "warrant the House's exercising its authority to adopt articles of impeachment." However, neither Trump, who's in London for a NATO summit, nor his counsel Pat Cipollone is expected to attend Wednesday's hearing. In a letter to Nadler on Sunday, Cipollone said the White House won't participate in the hearing, citing concern that the House panel won't afford Trump "a fair process." Nadler called White House's response "unfortunate" in a statement on Monday. | 
