Former President Trump's second impeachment trial stems from a charge of inciting the deadly storming of the U.S. Capitol and has prompted a debate over the constitutionality of the proceedings.
Many Senate Republicans have said they would vote to acquit the former president based on the fact that the impeachment trial would take place after he has left office. Democrats contend that the House of Representatives voted to impeach Trump one week before he left the office of the presidency.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Lawyers for Donald Trump are blasting the impeachment case against him as an act of "political theater" by Democrats. In a brief filed Monday on the eve of the Senate impeachment trial, lawyers for the former president attacked the case on multiple grounds. They said it was unconstitutional and must be dismissed. Trump's historic second impeachment trial is set to start Tuesday with a debate and vote on whether it's even constitutional to prosecute the former president now that he's no longer in office. Democrats want to hold the former president accountable for the violent U.S. Capitol siege. And Republicans want it over as fast as possible.
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