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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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 The National Archives on Saturday apologized for having blurred out signs in a photograph of the 2017 Women's March in Washington D.C. showcased at the museum -- saying it would review policies and replace the image.
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 The U.S. lawmakers managing the impeachment case against Donald Trump filed a brief on Saturday laying out their arguments supporting charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress against the president.
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As Ken Starr's successor, Mr. Ray ended up striking a deal that prevented Mr. Clinton from being prosecuted.
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 Liberal lawyer Alan Dershowitz Saturday downplayed his role on President Trump's impeachment legal team claiming he's not a full-fledged member, as the White House added another attorney to defend the president.
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Trump is the one fighting to keep his job, but it can feel like the entire country is reliving the last presidential impeachment.
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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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New documents released Friday evening by House Democrats show communications between indicted Rudy Guiliani associate Lev Parnas and an aide to the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee in which they arrange interviews with Ukrainian officials and apparent meetings at the Trump hotel in Washington, DC, including with Giuliani.
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The president is suggesting Nancy Pelosi orchestrated the timing of the trial to give Joe Biden a boost.
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Plans call for the chief justice of the United States to be sworn in to preside over the Trump impeachment trial. He will swear in the 100 senators as jurors.
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 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday continued her calls for witnesses in President Trump's impeachment trial after conceding to send articles of impeachment to the Senate in the coming weeks without Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's commitment to hear new testimony.
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