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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump Legal Team to Ask Senate for Speedy Acquittal in Impeachment Trial
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/20/us/politics/trump-legal-team-to-ask-senate-for-speedy-acquittal-in-impeachment-trial.html
The day before the trial starts, the presidents lawyers will assert he did nothing wrong and dismiss the proceeding as rigged.
By Peter Baker and Maggie Haberman
Jan. 20, 2020, 11:31 a.m. ET
WASHINGTON President Trumps legal team will call on the Senate on Monday to swiftly reject the impeachment charges and acquit him, maintaining that he committed no impeachable offense and has been the victim of an illegitimate partisan effort to take him down.
In a lengthy brief to be submitted to the Senate the day before his trial begins in earnest, the presidents lawyers plan to make the most sustained argument the White House has advanced since the House opened its impeachment inquiry last fall, contending that the two articles of impeachment approved largely along party lines were constitutionally flawed and set a dangerous precedent.
Mr. Trumps lawyers plan to dismiss the largely party-line impeachment by the House as a brazenly political act following a rigged process that should be repudiated by the Senate, according to a person working with his legal team, who spoke on condition of anonymity ahead of the submission of the trial brief. They will argue that neither of the articles of impeachment against Mr. Trump are valid because they do not state a violation of the law and they would in effect try to punish the president for foreign policy decisions and efforts to preserve executive prerogatives.
The brief does not deny that Mr. Trump pressured Ukraine to announce investigations into Democrats, including former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., but argues that the president has the right to conduct relations with other countries as he sees fit and that he had valid reasons to raise those issues with Ukraine to fight corruption.
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The day before the trial starts, the presidents lawyers will assert he did nothing wrong and dismiss the proceeding as rigged.
By Peter Baker and Maggie Haberman
Jan. 20, 2020, 11:31 a.m. ET
WASHINGTON President Trumps legal team will call on the Senate on Monday to swiftly reject the impeachment charges and acquit him, maintaining that he committed no impeachable offense and has been the victim of an illegitimate partisan effort to take him down.
In a lengthy brief to be submitted to the Senate the day before his trial begins in earnest, the presidents lawyers plan to make the most sustained argument the White House has advanced since the House opened its impeachment inquiry last fall, contending that the two articles of impeachment approved largely along party lines were constitutionally flawed and set a dangerous precedent.
Mr. Trumps lawyers plan to dismiss the largely party-line impeachment by the House as a brazenly political act following a rigged process that should be repudiated by the Senate, according to a person working with his legal team, who spoke on condition of anonymity ahead of the submission of the trial brief. They will argue that neither of the articles of impeachment against Mr. Trump are valid because they do not state a violation of the law and they would in effect try to punish the president for foreign policy decisions and efforts to preserve executive prerogatives.
The brief does not deny that Mr. Trump pressured Ukraine to announce investigations into Democrats, including former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., but argues that the president has the right to conduct relations with other countries as he sees fit and that he had valid reasons to raise those issues with Ukraine to fight corruption.
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Watch McConnell like a hawk and listen to every single word he utters. His goal is no witnesses - shut it down quickly.
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Trump Legal Team to Ask Senate for Speedy Acquittal in Impeachment Trial (Original Post)
Dennis Donovan
Jan 2020
OP
Moscow Mitch might very well be sitting on a kill switch that he will pull the minute ...
Botany
Jan 2020
#2
I've suspected he would devise *something* parliamentary to crush the trial
Dennis Donovan
Jan 2020
#3
calimary
(81,466 posts)1. Nope. A "brazen political act" following a "rigged process"
happened in the run-up to the 2016 election. Scheming with an avowed international enemy of America to cheat his way into our White House.
Botany
(70,581 posts)2. Moscow Mitch might very well be sitting on a kill switch that he will pull the minute ...
... any evidence and or witnesses bring out proof as per Trump's crimes.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212888650 kill switch
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)3. I've suspected he would devise *something* parliamentary to crush the trial
keithbvadu2
(36,906 posts)4. Whether speedy or slow, there is no doubt of an acquittal.
Whether speedy or slow, there is no doubt of an acquittal.
The repubs have already said they will coordinate/cooperate with the WH team.
They took an oath? Chuckle. Chuckle. Wink. Wink.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,192 posts)5. Dumbshits think he's king