Adam Schiff: will the Democratic star of Trump's impeachment trial be California's next top cop?

Congressman is a top contender for the role, but immigrant groups and criminal justice advocates say his record should disqualify him

As the lead prosecutor in Donald Trump's first impeachment trial, Adam Schiff, the representative from southern California, became a household name, an icon of the anti-Trump resistance, and a rising star in the Democratic party.

A year on, the congressman looks increasingly well positioned to be appointed as California's next attorney general. But in Schiff's home district, criminal justice and immigrant rights advocates say that his record as state senator and congressman, authoring legislation to increase the criminalization and incarceration of Black and brown Californians, should disqualify him from holding the position.