• Headlines
  • World News
  • Commercial Law
  • Famous Cases
  • Interviews
  • Photo News
  • Property Law
  • Lifestyle
Friday, February 26, 2021
  • Login
Gavel International
No Result
View All Result
No Result
View All Result
The Gavel
No Result
View All Result
Home World News

Impeachment prosecutors, Trump’s defence team lay out arguments as trial looms

@gavel1 by @gavel1
January 20, 2020
Reading Time: 3 min
0
Impeachment prosecutors, Trump’s defence team lay out arguments as trial looms
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
ADVERTISEMENT


U.S. President Donald Trump’s defense team and the prosecutors of his impeachment are laying out their arguments over whether his conduct toward Ukraine warrants his removal from office.

RelatedPosts

Spain to legalize euthanasia and aided suicide

Facebook faces antitrust lawsuits for Privacy invasion of Instagram users and Illegal Monopolization from the FTC

#ENDSARS: President Buhari officially addresses protesting youths, assures extensive Police Reforms

Trump’s lawyers on Sunday previewed their impeachment defence with the questionable assertion that the charges against him are invalid, adopting a position rejected by Democrats as “nonsense.”

The trial resumes on Tuesday with what could be a fight over the ground rules. By then, both sides will have submitted briefs and four Democratic presidential candidates will have been forced back to Washington from the early nominating states to join every other senator in silence, sans phones, on the Senate floor.

What they’re likely to hear in this extraordinary setting is the House Democrats’ impeachment articles that charge Trump with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress over his pressure on Ukraine for political help. From the White House, the senator-jurors are expected to hear that Trump committed no crime, the impeachment articles are invalid and he’s the victim of Democrats who want to overturn his election.

“Criminal-like conduct is required,” said Alan Dershowitz, a constitutional lawyer on Trump’s defense team. Dershowitz said he will be making the same argument to the Senate and if it prevails, there will be “no need” to pursue the witness testimony or documents that Democrats are demanding.

You should also READ  ‘Too early’ to declare China coronavirus a public health emergency: WHO

But the “no crime, no impeachment” approach has been roundly dismissed by scholars and Democrats, who were fresh off a trial brief that called Trump’s behavior the “worst nightmare” of the country’s founders. In their view, the standard of “high crimes and misdemeanors” is vague and open-ended in the Constitution and meant to encompass abuses of power that aren’t necessarily illegal.

The White House is pushing an “absurdist position,” said Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., the lead Democratic prosecutor of the impeachment case. “That’s the argument I suppose you have to make if the facts are so dead set against you.” Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., another impeachment prosecutor, called it “arrant nonsense” and said evidence of Trump’s misconduct is overwhelming.

The back-and-forth came as all concerned agitated for the Senate to get on with the third impeachment trial in the nation’s history. Behind the scenes. the seven House managers were shoring up which prosecutor will handle which parts of the case and doing a walk-through of the Senate. .

No senators were more eager to get going than the four Democratic presidential candidates facing the prospect of being marooned in the Senate ahead of kickoff nominating votes in Iowa and New Hampshire.

“I’d rather be here,” said Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on New Hampshire Public Radio while campaigning Sunday in Concord.

During the trial, Sanders and other senators are required to sit for perhaps six grueling hours of proceedings daily — except Sundays, per Senate rules — in pursuit of the “impartial justice” they pledged to pursue. But there was scant evidence that anyone’s mind was really open about whether Trump earned vindication or ouster.

You should also READ  Coronavirus: Global stocks surge after U.S. Federal Reserve promises support

Mystery, however, abounded over the trial’s ground rules. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., shed no light on how the proceedings will follow — and differ from — the precedent of President Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial in 1999.


Source link

Like this:

Like Loading...
Tags: Adam SchiffDonald TrumpDonald Trump ImpeachmentDonald Trump impeachment trialImpeachmentimpeachment trialMitch McConnellPoliticsSenate Impeachment TrialTrump impeachment articleTrump impeachment TrialWorld
@gavel1

@gavel1

Next Post
FRSC recorded 80% drop in road crashes in Bayelsa in 2019 – official

FRSC recorded 80% drop in road crashes in Bayelsa in 2019 – official

Discussion about this post

Trending News

  • Osinbajo backs Cryptocurrency, calls for robust regulation February 26, 2021
  • EFCC arraigns Bestworth Insurance Director, Hassan over N10.2bn misappropriation February 25, 2021
  • Court denies ex-pension boss, Maina bail February 25, 2021
  • My Borno Experience February 25, 2021
  • Scarcity of Medical oxygen in Africa, Latin America, escalate COVID-19 deaths February 25, 2021
The Gavel

© 2020 Gavel International - Powered by Realdata.

Navigate Site

  • Headlines
  • World News
  • Commercial Law
  • Famous Cases
  • Interviews
  • Photo News
  • Property Law
  • Lifestyle

Follow Us

No Result
View All Result
  • Court rejects duress claim by Ondo PDP chairman in N500m fraud case
  • Newsletter
  • Welcome to The Gavel

© 2020 Gavel International - Powered by Realdata.

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Create New Account!

Fill the forms below to register

All fields are required. Log In

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In

Add The Gavel to your Homescreen!

Add
%d bloggers like this: