Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday submitted his answer to the article of impeachment against him via his lawyers. The former president denies that he should be tried in the Senate after the House impeached him last month, arguing that it goes against the Constitution to impeach a former official who doesn’t hold any office. Read…
Read: Donald Trump’s Response to the Article of Impeachment Against Him
Read: Trump’s Response to the Article of Impeachment Against Him
Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday submitted his answer to the article of impeachment against him via his lawyers. The former president denies that he should be tried in the Senate after the House impeached him last month, arguing that it goes against the Constitution to impeach a former official who doesn’t hold any office. Read…
Trump Attorneys Argue Senate Impeachment Trial Unconstitutional
Former President Donald Trump’s lawyers submitted a brief denying that the former president should be tried in the Senate after the House impeached him last month, arguing that it goes against the Constitution to impeach a former official who doesn’t hold any office. Lawyers David Schoen and Bruce Castor argued that the Constitution “requires that…
Graham Warns Democrats Over Calling Witnesses During Trump Impeachment
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) warned Democrats not to call witnesses for the impeachment trial in the Senate, saying that it could blow up in their faces. He instead cautioned them to end the trial as quickly as possible. “To my Democratic colleagues, if you try to call one witness, you’re going blow up the United…
Democrat House Impeachment Managers File Trial Memo Outlining Their Case
House Democrat impeachment managers on Feb. 2 filed the trial memorandum summarizing their case for convicting former President Donald Trump. The memo (pdf), which was due on Tuesday, alleges that Trump incited the mob which breached the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 by challenging the results of the 2020 presidential election. The Democrats memo also…
Trump’s Impeachment Defense Lawyers Expected to Argue Trial Is Unconstitutional
The two attorneys who will lead former President Donald Trump’s impeachment defense legal team, David Schoen and Bruce L. Castor, Jr., are expected to argue that the Senate impeachment trial of the former president is unconstitutional. Trump on Jan. 31 announced that Alabama attorney Schoen and Castor Jr., a former prosecutor in Pennsylvania, will represent…
Trump Lawyer: Impeachment Is ‘Political Weaponization’ of a Constitutional Process
David Schoen, one of former President Donald Trump’s newly appointed impeachment defense attorneys, said he believes that Democrats are using the impeachment process as a “weapon” to go after Trump in an attempt to bar him from running for office again. “This is the political weaponization of the impeachment process,” Schoen told Fox News’ Sean…
Trump Names New Lead Lawyers For Impeachment Defense Team
Former President Donald Trump on Sunday named two attorneys who will lead his impeachment defense legal team. The two lawyers who will represent the former president in the upcoming Senate trial are David Schoen, an attorney from Alabama, and Bruce Castor Jr., a former prosecutor in Pennsylvania. This comes a day after media reports, citing anonymous…
South Carolina GOP Censures Rep. Tom Rice Over Trump Impeachment Vote
The South Carolina Republican Party (SCGOP) has voted to formally censure Rep. Tom Rice (R-S.C.), who voted with Democrats to impeach then-President Donald Trump earlier this month. Rice was one of ten Republicans who joined Democrats in impeaching Trump for a second time, in a 232–197 vote in the House on Jan. 13. The chamber alleged that…
South Carolina GOP Censures Rep. Rice Over Trump Impeachment Vote
The South Carolina Republican Party has voted to formally censure Rep. Tom Rice (R-S.C.), who sided with Democrats in support of the second impeachment of former President Donald Trump. Rice was one of 10 Republicans who joined Democrats in impeaching Trump for a second time, in a 232–197 vote in the House on Jan. 13. Trump was impeached…
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