On Monday, President Donald Trump's legal defense team filed a 109-page brief (171 pages long including appendices) urging the U.S. Senate to reject the Democrats' articles of impeachment. The letter deconstructed the impeachment case and denounced the very charges as "an affront to the Constitution." "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 lawyers wrote. "They debase the grave power of impeachment and disdain the solemn responsibility...