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In a six-page filing formally responding to the impeachment charges, President Trump's lawyers rejected the case against him as illegitimate and described the effort to remove him as dangerous.
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In a 111-page trial brief, released Saturday, the seven managers laid out their case for conviction and removal of Trump from office.
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 Nicholas Kamm/AFP/GettyOn the eve of the Senate's impeachment trial, President Trump's attorneys outlined a defense strategy that seeks to turn House Democrats' articles of impeachment on their head, arguing it was not the president who abused his power, but the House, and it was not the House's duty that was unjustly obstructed, but the president's.
In a fiery, six-page letter released on Saturday, Trump's lead lawyers—Jay Sekulow and Pat Cipollone—argue that the Senate should not only reject the articles of impeachment but that those articles are blatantly unconstitutional and violate the will of the American people.
The articles, the attorneys claim, are "defective in their entirety… They are the product of invalid proceedings that flagrantly denied the president any due process rights. They rest on dangerous distortions of the Constitution that would do lasting damage to our structure of government."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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 House impeachment managers file their opening briefings in their case against President Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
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Distrust and disputes in 2016 compelled reforms to the state's famously arcane process. But with the changes come the possibility of fresh complications.
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The House impeachment managers and Trump defense team face deadlines for briefs over the holiday weekend before the historic trial resumes next week.
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 Organizers of a Virginia gun rally urged thousands of people to attend Monday's event protesting Democrats' push to stiffen the state's gun laws after its top court upheld the governor's emergency ban on weapons at the rally grounds.
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