Posted on 01/31/2021 3:41:09 PM PST by McGruff
David Schoen and Bruce L. Castor, Jr. will head the legal team for the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump, his office announced Sunday, a day after CNN first reported that five known members of his impeachment defense team had left.
One point of friction with his previous team was Trump wanted the attorneys to focus on his election fraud claims rather than the constitutionality of convicting a former president.
Trump has struggled to find lawyers willing to take his case as he refuses to budge from his claims of election fraud which has been a serious sticking point.
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Put the system on trial.
Sekulow bailed on Trump? Disappointing
Everything you said!
Oh, I sure hope not! But based on how Trump has chosen people to work with in the past, it would not fully surprise me. That would indeed be an unwise move.
“, if I were Trump I’d refuse to appear”
Trump isn’t going to appear, just like he didn’t in the first impeachment trial. That’s not even on the table. But it would be massively stupid to just not have his lawyers show up. That would about guarantee the Senate would convict, spite for spite.
is it this guy
David Schoen
David Schoen is a civil rights and criminal defense lawyer based in Montgomery, Alabama and has served as trial counsel in the past for the Democratic Party.
https://www.foxnews.com/person/s/david-schoen
Who was bounced?
Are Sekulow and Giuliani still with him?
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I like the way Giuliani presented the case before at least one State Legislature, but I’ve generally been very unhappy with Trump’s advisors. They have seemed weak and a bit cowardly. Generally I think lawyers ARE weak and cowardly.
Dang man, aren’t there any courageous patriotic Constitutional lawyers around? God help me to be a faithful and courageous Patriot but God’s first.
” the final text of their resolution to impeach President Donald Trump, charging him with “incitement of insurrection.”
The charge is “incitement of insurrection”. WHY, in the name of all that’s holy, would his lawyers’ defense be “the constitutionality of convicting a former president? That in no way addresses the article of impeachment!!! Lindsey Graham and his sleazy attorneys were trying to set him up.
Anyhow, both issues could be addressed if the attorneys are good.
I worked in Sekulow’s Law Firm for awhile. Wasn’t impressed.
Is Trump an ex president? I’m not so sure. He clearly won the election last November The very fact the Democrats openly moved millions of votes over to Biden, and the fact they held a sham inauguration really doesn’t matter. See tagline. President Trump is a legitimate president and the Congress knows it.
That’s why this impeachment is so important. They want to give an air of legality to the illegal deeds they have done.
South Carolina lawyers Butch Bowers and Deborah Barbier and former federal prosecutors Greg Harris, Johnny Gasser and Josh Howard had left the defense team by Saturday, a source said, calling it a mutual decision.
The source said the lawyers left over a difference of opinion on the direction of the defense’s argument.
Another anonymous source told the Associated Press Bowers and Barbier left because Trump wanted them to make election fraud allegations during the trial.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/live-updates-trump-impeachment-trial-1-31-21
Agree, President Trump should tell Congress to go fornicate themselves and refuse. He’d get way more support for that than appearing.
Ditto...Trump’s impeachment trial jury has already spoken. And greater than 2/3 of them have stated the sham is unconstitutional. He has put that behind him and is going as far as he can to fight election fraud in the big spotlight of the senate charade. IMO, it’s pure Trump.
“Oh there’s not one bit of evidence.”
Except several state legislatures let their courts and not legislative officials change the election laws.
And bobble head Roberts wouldnt hear the cases.
I believe this exactly as you have stated.
The GOP is never going to convict and expose their TDS for every GOP voter to see. China Mitch punted the impeachment show trial because the GOP wants to use it in a fake show of support for Trump and put the GOP Senate’s certification of the stolen election in the rear view mirror.
I wouldn’t be surprised.
Don’t know what to tell you about that.
As you’ll note, nobody on our side seems to be anxious to
come to President Trump’s defense.
We seem to have bunch of spineless people out there.
Dershowitz was suppose to be part of the team but then announced he wouldn’t be.
I think lawyers just don’t want to take this in the direction Trump wants to take it...and then there is the huge problem of losing clients for taking the case on.
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