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…
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…
Deep Dive (Feb. 1): President Biden Reverses Trump’s Spending Cuts
Experts weigh in on the constitutionality of the second impeachment trial of Trump. What are the two arguments? According to one reading of the Constitution, scholars say impeachment is for current officeholders. They said since Trump had already left office, the Senate’s jurisdiction to hold an impeachment trial expired on Jan. 20 when his term…
Impeachment Brings Trump’s Struggle With Political Class to Intense Climax
Commentary Next week the political center-stage will be occupied by the ill-fated charade of the impeachment trial. This must be the last gasp of the notorious Democratic inability to focus for long on any political activity except hatred of the ex-president. For five years it has been their substitute for policy and for politics itself,…
Ken Starr: Senate ‘Utterly Without Jurisdiction’ to Try Ex-President Trump
Former special prosecutor Ken Starr added to a chorus of conservative voices arguing that the Senate doesn’t have the jurisdiction to hold an impeachment trial against former President Donald Trump. Starr, in comments to Fox News on Monday, stated that the upper chamber cannot try a president after leaving office. “The answer is emphatically not,”…
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…
Sen. Graham: Calling ‘QAnon Shaman’ as Impeachment Witness Would Turn Trial Into ‘Circus’
Calling the so-called QAnon Shaman as a witness in the upcoming impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump would turn the proceedings into a “circus,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) charged Friday. “I cannot think of a better way to turn the upcoming impeachment trial into a complete circus than to call the QAnon Shaman as…
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