'The Articles of Impeachment now before the Senate are an affront to the Constitution and to our democratic institutions,' Trump's legal team wrote in a brief submitted at the trial's start.
After 24 hours of opening arguments from Democrats, President Donald Trump's defense team will take the Senate floor on Saturday to make the case for his acquittal.
"The Articles of Impeachment now before the Senate are an affront to the Constitution and to our democratic institutions. The Articles themselves—and the rigged process that brought them here—are a brazenly political act by House Democrats that must be rejected," the Trump team wrote in a legal brief submitted to the Senate earlier this week.
Like the House impeachment managers, Trump's legal team will be given 24 hours to present their opening statements to the Senate. The president is being represented by White House counsel Pat Cipollone and his personal attorney Jay Sekulow. Other lawyers on his team are Ken Starr, the former independent counsel involved in President Bill Clinton's impeachment, and Alan Dershowitz, the famed lawyer and Harvard law professor.
Defense team member and President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Jay Sekulow speaks to reporters during a recess in the Senate impeachment proceedings on January 22. Trump's team will take over the trial on Saturday to start its opening arguments."We're not going to try to run the clock out," Sekulow told reporters Thursday. He added that whatever amount of time the team uses, he's confident that"the case will be made defending the president.
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