Premier Contact, prochain long-métrage de Denis Villeneuve, dévoile de nouvelles images mystérieuses et fascinantes. Porté par Amy Adams et Jeremy Renner, le film sort dans les salles le 7 décembre 2016.

Avant de nous embarquer dans l’univers de Blade Runner 2, Denis Villeneuve reste dans le genre SF en en nous emmenant faire connaissance avec des extraterrestres fraîchement arrivés sur Terre dans Premier Contact.

Le film est adapté du roman Story of Your Life écrit par Ted Chiang. L’histoire est la suivante :  à la suite d’une invasion extraterrestre, le gouvernement américain décide de faire appel à un linguiste pour qu’il déchiffre le langage des aliens afin de découvrir leurs intentions.

Après un premier teaser énigmatique, voici que débarque la bande-annonce avec de nouvelles images dévoilant quelques informations supplémentaires sur l’intrigue. Amy Adams se glisse dans la peau de la linguiste surdouée Louise Banks ; cette dernière va réussir à traduire le langage extraterrestre dans un rôle qui n’est pas sans rappeler celui de James Spader alias Daniel Jackson dans Stargate, scientifique spécialisé dans les langues anciennes et les symboles. Avec l’aide de Jeremy Renner et Forest Whitaker, Adams va devoir tout faire pour éviter une guerre mondiale contre les aliens, certains pays ne voyant pas d’un bon oeil l’arrivée de ces énormes vaisseaux à la forme étrange.

Sont-ils gentils ou belliqueux ? La guerre sera-t-elle évitée ? Réponse dans les salles obscures le 7 décembre 2016. À noter que Jeremy Renner a récemment déclaré que le long-métrage ressemblerait à un mélange entre les films de Stanley Kubrick et Steven Spielberg, de quoi rendre très curieux !

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“I’ll be back !” Terminator 2 va ressortir sur grand écran en 3D relief en 2017.

1. La nouvelle affiche de Terminator 2 pour la sortie en version 3D
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Alors que Terminator 2 fêtera bientôt ses 25 ans (le film est sorti 16 octobre 1991 en France), la ressortie du film est annoncée en 3D relief pour l’année prochaine (sans plus de précision sur la date et les pays concernés), avec comme pour marqueur temporel, la mise en route de Skynet, comme l’indique la page Facebook officielle du film

“29 août 1997 : le jour où Skynet a été mis en route / 29 août 2016 : le jour où vous avez vu le nouveau poster de Terminator 2 3D pour la première fois. Arrivée au cinéma en 2017” 

En 2029, après leur échec pour éliminer Sarah Connor, les robots de Skynet programment un nouveau Terminator, le T-1000, pour retourner dans le passé et éliminer son fils John Connor, futur leader de la résistance humaine. Ce dernier programme un autre cyborg, le T-800, et l’envoie également en 1995, pour le protéger. Une seule question déterminera le sort de l’humanité : laquelle des deux machines trouvera John la première ? 

Porté par Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton et Edward Furlong, Terminator 2 : le jugement dernier avait réalisé près de 6 millions d’entrées en France en 1991. 

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Agnès Soral a quitté le monde médiatique pendant quelques années. Elle revient ce 26 mars, dans la série événement de M6, Un avion sans elle. A cette occasion, elle a accepté de poser avec sa fille, Laetitia, et de parler à coeur ouvert.

Agnès Soral a connu la gloire très jeune. Dans les années 70, ses rôles dans Un moment d’égarement et Tchao Pantin la propulsent au sommet, recevant deux nominations à la cérémonie des César. Mais c’est aussi sur les planches qu’elle s’est épanouie, avec chaque soir cette même envie de tout donner à son public. Aujourd’hui, mère de deux enfants, elle revient sur le devant de la scène après un silence médiatique, imposé par les sorties antisémites et homophobes de son frère, Alain Soral. A cette occasion, l’actrice de 58 ans a accepté de poser pour Gala avec sa fille Laetitia, âgée de trente ans, chanteuse dans le groupe de rock anglais, Average Sex. Agnès Soral se confie sur ses relations avec elle. « Il lui fallait s’éloigner pour exister sans être continuellement comparée à moi (…) Elle a dû faire le deuil du parent qu’elle aurait aimé que je sois pour que nous devenions les complices que nous sommes aujourd’hui. »

Agnès Soral a tout fait pour protéger ses filles de l’adversité. « On ne peut pas empêcher les enfants de vivre, par peur des loups ou des chutes. J’en ai connu et j’en ai fait… », confie-t-elle, avant d’expliquer comment elle se sent à présent. « Je suis comme un guide de haute montagne. Je ne suis pas encore arrivée au sommet, j’ai chuté, mais j’ai du matériel pour dire à mes filles qu’on peut se sortir de tout. »

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Cette force d’esprit, la comédienne la tient de ses pratiques spirituelles, elle fait de l’hypnose et de l’autohypnose. Mais c’est aussi l’héritage de l’éducation que lui a donnée sa mère. « Ma mère était une femme enfant, j’ai appris à me débrouiller très jeune et à ne compter que sur moi », dit-elle à coeur ouvert. « Elle me laissait beaucoup de liberté. Cela contrebalançait la sévérité de mon père qui était violent avec nous deux. » La suite de son histoire, la France entière la connait. Elle devient “La Soral” et explose dans le monde du septième art…

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Ce mardi 14 mai, Alessandra Sublet était aux commandes de C’est Canteloup, aux côtés de Nicolas Canteloup sur TF1. L’animatrice a fait sensation avec son nouveau collier. Découvrez où l’acheter.

Elle a fait sensation ! Tous les regards ne sont pas uniquement tournés vers le Festival de Cannes et son tapis rouge. Ce mardi 14 mai, Alessandra Sublet était aux commandes d’un nouveau numéro de C’est Canteloup sur TF1. Cette fois, ce n’est pas à cause d’une remarque de Nicolas Canteloup que l’animatrice a fait parler d’elle. Mais pour un bijou. Lumineuse dans un pull jaune, la sublime femme de 42 ans portait un collier de surfeur – de quoi sans doute lui rappeler ses vacances passées sous le soleil de Saint-Barth – qui n’est pas passé inaperçu.

Difficile en effet de le louper. De couleur jaune et vert, il attire le regard. Il s’agit d’un bijou de la marque All the must, dont le prix des colliers oscillent entre 60 euros et 125 euros. Ces derniers sont en vente sur leur site internet mais aussi sur de nombreux points de vente dont les Galeries Lafayette ou le BHV Marais.

Ce n’est pas la première fois que le look de la maman de Charlie, bientôt âgée de 7 ans et Alphonse, bientôt 5 ans est scruté de près. Il y a quelques jours encore, l’ex-compagne de Clément Miserez recevait de nombreux messages de fans voulant arborer le même t-shirt qu’elle. Comme quoi, pas besoin d’être à Cannes pour créer la tendance.

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Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson et l’équipe de Jumanji ont posté des photos et une vidéo depuis le tournage. Et apparemment, l’ambiance est bonne !

Le tournage du nouveau film Jumanji se poursuit dans la bonne humeur ! Le casting s’en donne à coeur joie sur les réseaux sociaux avec le comique Kevin Hart montrant bien la différence de carrure entre la star du film et lui :

Please don’t look at my knees in this picture ???? Having a blast as usual on the set of Jumanji with my brother @therock #SetLife #Jumanji

Une photo publiée par Kevin Hart (@kevinhart4real) le 30 Sept. 2016 à 14h28 PDT

Dwayne Johnson s’amuse de ses camarades (Hart, Jack Black et Karen Gillian) qui se rendent à pieds sur le plateau alors qu’il est en voiture :

Where else can I drive down a jungle dirt road and find @nickjonas, @karengillanofficial, @kevinhart4real callin’ me a motherf*cker and Jack Black happily enjoying ice cream. ? Luv these guys. What a motley crew we’ve assembled. Havin’ a blast. #OnLocation #Hawaii #Jumanji #WhyWalkWhenYouCanDrive?

Une vidéo publiée par therock (@therock) le 30 Sept. 2016 à 10h48 PDT

Enfin, Gillian pose avec ses doublures :

Three Martha’s ready to kick some ass in the jungle. @jahnelly and Emily #JumanjiMovie #roundhouse

Une photo publiée par Karen Gillan (@karengillanofficial) le 30 Sept. 2016 à 10h25 PDT

A noter que sur cette photo, le nom du personnage de Gillian serait Martha, sauf qu’il a été annoncé depuis qu’elle jouerait un avatar nommé Ruby Roundhouse. On se souvient que la mère des enfants du film original s’appelait Martha Shepherd. Dès lors, toutes les suppositions sont possibles…

Ce Jumanji devrait rendre hommage à l’original et surtout à l’inoubliable Robin Williams. Il montrera l’intrigue sous un nouveau jour, tout en restant fidèle à l’esprit du film de 1995, nous avait indiqué l’équipe du film. Sortie prévue le 2 août 2017.

Edité pour la première fois en 2013, le livre “Stan Lee : Homère du XXème siècle” est récemment ressorti en librairie. L’occasion de plonger dans la vie et l’oeuvre de cette figure controversée de Marvel.

De Stan Lee, vous connaissez ses apparitions très attendues dans les films Marvel, ou certaines des créations, de Spider-Man aux Quatre fantastiques en passant par Hulk. Des enfants dotés de super-pouvoirs, mais dont la véritable origine a plus d’une fois été remise en question, comme le rappelle le livre de Jean-Marc Lainé, intitulé “Homère XXème”.

Une expression que l’essayiste et traducteur reprend à son compte mais qu’il agrémente d’exemples montrant comment cette figure incontournable du milieu de la bande-dessinée a contribué à créer sa propre légende, quitte à faire des raccourcis ou enjoliver certains événements. Publié une première fois en 2013, l’ouvrage a très récemment été réédité, alors que les longs métrages issus de la Maison des Idées continuent de régner sur le monde des blockbusters.

Génie ou imposteur ?

Mi-biographie, mi-analyse, le livre se penche sur diverses étapes de la carrière de Stan Lee, et notamment sa relation avec les dessinateurs Jack Kirby et Steve Ditko, dont il ne partageait pas nécessairement les points de vues (sur l’identité du Bouffon vert dans Spider-Man notamment, qui correspond à la façon de faire de Lee en matière de twists). Evoquant également l’importance du masque chez lui, ou les différentes formes que peuvent prendre ses personnages (à commencer par le “polymathe” qui, comme Thor, a une double identité lorsqu’il est sur Terre), l’auteur ne signe pas une hagiographie dans la mesure où il n’évacue pas l’aspect critique.

Et c’est ainsi que les novices pourront découvrir en quoi Stan Lee est une figure aussi adulée que controversée, et dont l’image est bien resumée par ces deux phrases situées dans l’introduction : “Pour certains, c’est un génie. Pour d’autres, c’est un imposteur.” Dans quel camp vous situerez-vous après avoir lu “Homère du XXème siècle” ?

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WASHINGTON — 

A House freshman from New Jersey who has been planning to break with his party and vote against impeaching President Trump will become a Republican, a GOP official said Saturday.

Top House Republicans have been told of Rep. Jeff Van Drew’s decision, according to a GOP official familiar with the conversations. The lawmaker had discussed switching parties in a meeting with Trump at the White House on Friday, an administration official said Saturday.

Van Drew’s decision underscores the pressures facing moderate Democrats from Trump-leaning districts as next week’s impeachment vote approaches. Van Drew won his southern New Jersey district by 8 percentage points last year, but Trump carried it by 5 points in 2016, and Van Drew was considered one of the more vulnerable House Democrats going into next November’s congressional elections.

There are 31 House Democrats who represent districts Trump carried in the 2016 election, and many of them have been nervous about the political repercussions they would face by voting to impeach Trump. The House Republican campaign committee has already run ads targeting many of them, but most are expected to support Trump’s impeachment.

A senior Democratic aide said Van Drew had not notified House Democratic leaders about his decision. All the aides spoke on condition of anonymity to describe private conversations.

The senior Democratic aide provided what was described as a poll conducted earlier this month by Van Drew’s campaign showing that, by more than a 2-1 margin, people in his district would prefer a different candidate than Van Drew in the Democratic primary and general election.

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Rumors surfaced last week that Van Drew might switch parties, and he repeatedly denied them to reporters. But he reaffirmed his plan to oppose impeachment, barring new evidence.

“It doesn’t mean that I agree with everything the president may have said or done. It means that I don’t believe that these are impeachable offenses,” he said in an interview Thursday.

Van Drew and a spokesperson did not answer their cellphones or return text messages on Saturday.

Trump put out a congratulatory tweet early Sunday. “Thank you for your honesty Jeff. All of the Democrats know you are right, but unlike you, they don’t have the ‘guts’ to say so!”

Even with his defection, there remains no doubt that the Democratic-controlled House will vote to impeach Trump on a near party-line vote.

Democrats will still control the chamber by 232-198, plus an independent and four vacancies. Until now, Van Drew and Rep. Collin Peterson of Minnesota were the only Democrats expected to vote against impeachment, with perhaps a handful of others joining them. House Republicans seem on track to oppose impeachment unanimously.

Van Drew was a longtime state senator. His congressional district had been under Republican control for nearly two decades before he was elected.

The House is set to approve two articles of impeachment against Trump this week. Democrats, who hold the majority, expect support from all but a few of their members. No Republicans are expected to join them.

The Republican-controlled Senate is then all but certain to acquit Trump after a trial in January.

Van Drew has argued that the process is likely just to further divide the country and that it would be better to let voters decide Trump’s fate in next year’s election.

In the first article of impeachment, Trump is accused of abusing his presidential power by asking Ukraine to investigate his 2020 rival Joe Biden while holding military aid as leverage. In the second article, he’s accused of obstructing Congress by blocking the House’s efforts to investigate his actions.

Scuffles broke out Saturday during a Glendale town hall event on Armenian genocide that was attended by Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Burbank), who is at the center of the effort to impeach President Trump.

The event at the Glendale Central Library was meant for an Armenian organization to thank U.S. government officials for their support of resolutions recognizing the Armenian genocide. Schiff is a co-sponsor of a resolution.

As Schiff began speaking, a man and two women held up signs reading,”Don’t Impeach.” When they were asked to take down the signs, they refused.

Then, about a dozen people scattered throughout the auditorium began yelling, “Liar!”

When some in the audience asked them to refrain from yelling, scuffles broke out throughout the room. The audience members who were yelling at Schiff removed their jackets, revealing shirts supporting Trump.

After about 15 minutes, the scuffles settled down, and the event continued.

There were three Glendale police officers at the event who helped deal with the situation, according to the Police Department. No injuries were reported, police said.

The event was organized by the Armenian National Committee of America — Western Region to thank the U.S. House of Representatives for recently passing a resolution affirming its recognition of the Armenian genocide and celebrating the U.S. Senate’s passage of the resolution.

The measure’s passage is considered a rebuke to Trump, who had sought its delay, and to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who had lobbied the White House to block the designation. The Turkish government disputes that a genocide took place.

Erdogan, in an Oval Office visit last month, warned of dire consequences for the Washington-Ankara relationship if the “genocide” term were to be formalized. The Senate resolution declared it U.S. policy “to commemorate the Armenian Genocide through official recognition and remembrance” and “reject efforts to enlist, engage, or otherwise associate the United States government with denial of the Armenian Genocide or any other genocide.”

Southern California is home to an estimated 200,000 Armenian Americans, the largest community in the U.S.

Schiff said he appreciated the opportunity to take part in the event.

“I was grateful for the opportunity to share in the community’s celebration of the historic passage of the Armenian Genocide resolution in both the House and Senate, and thankful for the recognition of the efforts of so many people who made this day possible,” he said in a statement.

“Unfortunately, some came to the event with the intent to disrupt, but the Armenian community has had to overcome far greater challenges along the road to recognition than to be deterred by a few angry voices,” said Schiff, who as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee has helped lead the Trump impeachment investigation.

In a statement, the Armenian committee said what made the interruptions that much more “egregious” was that descendants of genocide survivors were in the room, many of them elderly, who had waited for the passage of such resolutions their entire lives and had attended the event to express their gratitude to all those who supported the cause for decades.

“While, as Americans, we value our right to freedom of speech, today’s actions by a select few were designed to disrupt an event that had no connection to recent political divisions and disrespected the memory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide,” the statement said.

The committee said the issue transcended partisan politics in its appeal to properly honor and acknowledge the 1.5 million Armenians, Greeks and Assyrians who were massacred from 1915 to 1923 under the Ottoman Empire, now modern-day Turkey.

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WASHINGTON — 

As the House prepares to vote this week to impeach President Trump, leaders of the Senate began sparring Sunday over which witnesses each party might call in a trial, with both sides aware that opening a spigot of testimony could result in damaging counterattacks.

Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), the Senate minority leader, laid out his opening gambit in a letter to Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), the majority leader, urging that several senior Trump aides be summoned to testify before the Senate, including Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, and former national security advisor John Bolton.

Earlier Sunday, several key Senate Republicans publicly diverged over how to conduct the impeachment trial, which is expected to begin in January, with some calling for allegations against Trump to be summarily quashed and others advocating a lengthier process that would include summoning witnesses for fresh testimony.

Schumer’s letter said a Senate trial must “pass the fairness test with the American people.”

At the same time, however, Democrats want to avoid having a trial that’s intended to focus on Trump’s conduct devolve into a venue for airing Trump’s attacks against former Vice President Joe Biden, a potential Trump rival in 2020, and his son, Hunter.

Key Democrats in the House of Representatives, meanwhile, insisted that Trump’s all-but-certain acquittal in the Senate would not brand as a failure the House proceedings against the president. The House is expected to vote Wednesday to impeach Trump, with the resolution likely to pass on an almost entirely party-line vote.

The House Judiciary Committee last week approved two articles of impeachment against Trump, for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. A full House vote to adopt those articles would make Trump only the third U.S. president to be impeached.

In a round of appearances on Sunday’s news-talk shows, senior Republicans dealt with continuing fallout over McConnell’s assertion last week that there was “no chance” that Trump would be removed from office.

McConnell said in a Fox News interview that he was coordinating with — and taking cues from — the president’s lawyers on ground rules for the Senate showdown. Democrats protested that his statement disqualified him from being an impartial juror in an impeachment trial.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of Trump’s most vociferous defenders, declared Sunday that he had already made up his mind, so there was no need for a drawn-out trial on whether Trump improperly pressured Ukraine’s president to dig up dirt on the former vice president.

“I’m not trying to hide the fact that I have disdain for the accusations in the process, so I don’t need any witnesses,” the South Carolina Republican said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”

Other Republicans, though, suggested the underlying facts needed airing, even while suggesting Trump would prevail.

“I think it would be extremely inappropriate to put a bullet in this thing immediately when it comes over,” Sen. Patrick J. Toomey of Pennsylvania said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

Toomey signaled an emerging strategy for some GOP senators of broadly accepting Democratic assertions about the president’s actions while disagreeing on their gravity.

“There might be a lot of agreements” on facts, he said, but “I think there’s a big disagreement about what rises to a level of impeachment.”

Trump opposes that line of argument because it concedes that at least some of his actions toward Ukraine were inappropriate. He continues to insist that his conduct was “perfect” and wants an extended trial in which his lawyers could demand testimony from Hunter Biden and other Democrats he has accused of misdeeds. He continued that strategy Sunday in a blizzard of tweets.

Some Republican senators have signed on to the idea of an extensive trial with the apparent aim of impugning the fairness of the House impeachment proceedings and attempting to tar the Bidens. Others, like Toomey, have said they aren’t prepared to say yet whether the Senate trial should include any live testimony.

On Sunday, that division among Republican senators remained apparent.

“If the president wants to call Hunter Biden, or wants to call the whistleblower, the Senate should allow [him] to do so,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said on ABC’s “This Week.” A whistleblower’s complaint in August raised serious concerns about a July 25 phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, setting the impeachment process in motion.

During House hearings, public testimony by a dozen witnesses, including diplomats and current and former administration officials, portrayed an irregular foreign-policy back channel steered by the president’s personal lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, with the alleged knowledge of several of Trump’s most high-level aides.

But the White House has blocked demands for documents and testimony from current and former senior administration figures including Mulvaney, Bolton and Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo.

Many Democrats, in both the House and Senate, have said that if Trump’s team had had any witnesses whose testimony would help clear him, they would have been allowed to appear already.

Sen. Richard J. Durbin of Illinois said on “Face the Nation” that witnesses should be called in the Senate trial, but “it appears to me there are no witnesses the president would want to call to exonerate himself.”

Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio, interviewed on “Meet the Press,” decried what he called Republicans’ refusal to consider the facts of the case.

“It’s why I’m so disappointed in my colleagues,” he said, “this ‘see no evil, hear no evil’ attitude that they don’t want to look at anything … that might disagree with their worldview of Republicanism and this president.”

Prospects for a near-party-line vote in the House appeared unchanged, although with the twist that one anti-impeachment Democrat, Rep. Jefferson Van Drew of New Jersey, is now reportedly preparing to switch his party affiliation — a step Trump tweeted Sunday would be “very smart.”

Van Drew, a conservative Democrat in his first term, faced polls in his southern New Jersey district that showed he would probably lose a Democratic primary if he voted against impeachment. He hopes Trump’s backing will enable him to win the Republican nomination for a second term.

Only one other Democrat, Rep. Collin C. Peterson of Minnesota, is considered a likely vote against impeachment, although a couple of others who represent districts Trump carried in 2016 are still undeclared.

Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan, who left the Republican Party to become an independent after he announced his support for impeachment, is the only non-Democrat expected to vote for impeachment.

Rep. Will Hurd of Texas, a Republican who is retiring and had initially seemed open to the idea that Trump’s actions were cause for concern, signaled he would probably stay in the Republican fold.

“You can vote against impeachment but still disagree with some of the policies and some of the behavior,” the former CIA officer said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

With an end to the House proceedings in sight, the two principal committee chairmen handling the issue — Reps. Adam B. Schiff (D-Burbank) and Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) — said the prospect of Trump winning acquittal in the Senate did nothing to diminish the effort.

“It isn’t a failure — at least it’s not a failure in the sense of our constitutional duty,” Schiff, the head of the Intelligence Committee, said on “This Week.” On the same program, Nadler, who heads the Judiciary Committee, said Trump’s pattern of behavior amounted to a continuing menace.

“He poses a continuing threat to our national security and to the integrity of our elections, to our democratic system itself,” Nadler said. “We cannot permit that to continue.”

WASHINGTON — 

Five aides to a House Democrat who plans to become a Republican are resigning, saying his party switch “does not align with the values we brought to this job when we joined his office.”

The staffers wrote the letter on Sunday, a day after a Republican official said GOP House leaders had been informed that New Jersey Rep. Jeff Van Drew was planning the switch. Van Drew, a freshman, has said he will vote “no” this week when the House decides whether to impeach President Trump, a decision that puts him at odds with nearly every other Democrat.

“Over the past year, Trump Republicans have sided with special interests over the needs of working people,” the five wrote to Van Drew’s chief of staff, Allison Murphy. “Worse, they continue to aid and abet Trump as he shreds the Constitution and tears the country apart. They have refused to grapple with how the President of the United States has jeopardized our national security for his own political advantage.”

The staffers said they respect Van Drew but “are deeply saddened and disappointed by his decision. As such, we can no longer in good conscience continue our service in the Congressman’s employ.”

It is unusual for members of Congress to switch parties, especially to move from the majority to the minority party, which has vastly less power in the House. And while it is not uncommon for aides to quit if a lawmaker switches parties, the staffers’ decision underscores the deep rifts between Democrats and Republicans over Trump and his conduct in office.

Van Drew represents a southern New Jersey district that he won by 8 percentage points last year but that Trump carried by 5 percentage points in the 2016 election. Van Drew was expected to face a difficult reelection next year, and polling showed he would also be vulnerable in a Democratic primary for the nomination for his seat.

The five resigning aides are deputy staff chiefs Edward Kaczmarski and Justin M. O’Leary, legislative director Javier Gamboa, spokeswoman MacKenzie Lucas and legislative assistant Caroline Wood.

Despite Van Drew’s planned defection, Democrats will retain their House majority.

The chamber seems certain to impeach Trump this week, probably Wednesday, in a near party-line vote over charges that he pressured Ukraine to help him in next year’s election by investigating former Vice President Joe Biden, who is vying for the Democratic presidential nomination. Unanimous GOP opposition to impeachment is considered likely.

The GOP-led Senate seems certain to find Trump not guilty and keep him in office.