The Insurrection: Trump 2nd Impeachment Trial starts 2/09/2021

Home Health Columnist / Guide · Jan 31, 2021

Home Health Columnist / Guide · Jan 31, 2021

Home Health Columnist / Guide · Jan 31, 2021

Hot off CNN: Trump defense Team left as he wanted them to say "Fraudulent Election" defense. Doesn't look good when Butch Bowers, an experienced political attorney who has represented numerous Republican elected officials who feels "everyone deserves a defense" quits as Counsel. Can't lie in court, including Senate trial.

CNN 1/30/21

Trump's impeachment defense team leaves less than two weeks before trial

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...Butch Bowers and Deborah Barbier, who were expected to be two of the lead attorneys, are no longer on the team. A source familiar with the changes said it was a mutual decision for both to leave the legal team. As the lead attorney, Bowers assembled the team...

...A person familiar with the departures told CNN that Trump wanted the attorneys to argue there was mass election fraud and that the election was stolen from him rather than focus on the legality of convicting a president after he's left office. Trump was not receptive to the discussions about how they should proceed in that regard....

..."The Democrats' efforts to impeach a president who has already left office is totally unconstitutional and so bad for our country. In fact, 45 Senators have already voted that it is unconstitutional. We have done much work, but have not made a final decision on our legal team, which will be made shortly," former Trump campaign adviser Jason Miller told CNN....

Home Health Columnist / Guide · Feb 2, 2021

First documents from the House Impeachment Managers to be filed tomorrow.

Powerful NY Times reporting that I hope can be used as part of the Impeachment trial

NY Times 2/1/2021

77 Days: Trump’s Campaign to Subvert the Election

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Hours after the United States voted, the president declared the election a fraud — a lie that unleashed a movement that would shatter democratic norms and upend the peaceful transfer of power.

Marching to the Capital came out of the White House planning...

Key Takeaways From Trump’s Effort to Overturn the Election

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For 77 days between the election and the inauguration, President Donald J. Trump attempted to subvert American democracy with a lie about election fraud that he had been grooming for years.

A New York Times examination of the events that unfolded after the election shows how the president — enabled by Republican leaders, advised by conspiracy-minded lawyers and bankrolled by a new class of Trump-era donors — waged an extralegal campaign that convinced tens of millions of Americans the election had been stolen and made the deadly Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol almost inevitable.

Interviews with central players, along with documents, videos and previously unreported emails, tell the story of a campaign that was more coordinated than previously understood, even as it strayed farther from reality with each passing day.

As some lawyers on Trump’s team pulled back, others were ready to press ahead with suits skating the lines of legal ethics and reason

Voting-machine conspiracy theories became intertwined with a supercomputer story pushed in conservative media

Trump was enabled by influential Republicans motivated by ambition, fear or a misplaced belief that he would not go too far

Texas’ lawsuit challenging election results in 4 battleground states was ghostwritten

The lie was propelled forward by new and more radical lawyers and financiers

Women for America First, a little known but highly organized group, helped build a coalition

The Jan. 6 rally effectively became a White House production

Women for America First was the original organizer of the Jan. 6 rally in Washington. But at the turn of the year, Mr. Trump decided to join the rally himself, and the event effectively became a White House production, with several people close to the administration and the Trump campaign joining the team...

Home Health Columnist / Guide · Feb 2, 2021

Read the 80 page House Impeachment filling re the Betrayal of Historic Proportions demanding judgement from the Senate .

CNN 2/2/2021

Democrats' impeachment filing: Trump 'threatened the constitutional system'

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The House impeachment managers charge that former President Donald Trump is "singularly responsible" for inciting the insurrection at the Capitol last month, arguing that the Senate should convict Trump and bar him from holding future office after he "threatened the constitutional system that protects the fundamental freedoms we cherish."

The House managers laid out their case against Trump in an 80-page pre-trial legal brief filed Tuesday morning, in which they accused Trump of stirring up violence against Congress in an attempt to upend the peaceful transfer of power. They also provided a constitutional defense for holding an impeachment trial of a former president.

"President Trump's responsibility for the events of January 6 is unmistakable," the House impeachment team wrote. "President Trump's effort to extend his grip on power by fomenting violence against Congress was a profound violation of the oath he swore. If provoking an insurrectionary riot against a Joint Session of Congress after losing an election is not an impeachable offense, it is hard to imagine what would be."...

Trumps new lawyers argue impeachment trial is unconstitutional, speech protected by first amendment in 14 page brief. Lawyer Bruce Castor is from my area, former District Attorney in Montgomery County --burned Republican Party hierarchy in past runs for higher office. Is this another attempt to get back into Republican political good graces? Was perceived as decent lawyer.

ABC News 2/02/2021

Trump argues impeachment trial is unconstitutional

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Former President Donald Trump has submitted his formal answer to the article of impeachment through his attorneys, arguing that the trial is unconstitutional as he is out of office, and denying that the president violated his oath of office.

Through his attorneys, Trump also denies that he was "factually in error" when he claimed on Jan. 6 that he had won the election by a landslide....

toomuchbaloney · Feb 2, 2021

2 hours ago, NRSKarenRN said:

Read the 80 page House Impeachment filling re the Betrayal of Historic Proportions demanding judgement from the Senate .

CNN 2/2/2021

Democrats' impeachment filing: Trump 'threatened the constitutional system'

Trumps new lawyers argue impeachment trial is unconstitutional, speech protected by first amendment in 14 page brief. Lawyer Bruce Castor is from my area, former District Attorney in Montgomery County --burned Republican Party hierarchy in past runs for higher office. Is this another attempt to get back into Republican political good graces? Was perceived as decent lawyer.

ABC News 2/02/2021

Trump argues impeachment trial is unconstitutional

That brief is stunning in it's contradictory and sophomoric stances.

They go on and on about how the Senate trial is unconstitutional because the embezzling banker no longer works at the bank...and then they complain later that the absence of the chief justice at the trial is an affront because the banker deserves credit for being a banker.

Holy hell.

Home Health Columnist / Guide · Feb 3, 2021

Have you stocked up on Popcorn and snacks for the Super Bowl & next weeks trial... stock up by Friday, especially if in the Midwest and Northeast U.S. as another blizzard possible Sunday.

Fox News 02/02/2021

Graham warns Dems about calling witnesses during Trump impeachment

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Sen. Lindsey Graham, the outgoing chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, told Fox News Monday night that if Democrats call one witness during former President Trump’s impeachment trial next week, they would be "opening a can of worms" and Republicans will respond by calling in the FBI to testify....

If you open that can of worms, we’ll want the FBI to come in and tell us about how people pre-planned this attack and what happened with the security footprint at the Capitol. You open up Pandora's Box if you call one witness," he said....

National Review 02/03/2021

Graham’s Threat Does Not Help Trump’s Defense

It might actually make things worse.

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At least some of the Democrats chosen to be House impeachment managers are former state or federal prosecutors. So I have to think they got a hearty laugh out of a threat made by Senator Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) in a television interview Monday night.

Graham is warning Democrats against calling any witnesses when the Senate impeachment trial of former president Trump kicks off next week.

This, of course, is consistent with the Senate Republican strategy, which is to oppose impeachment on constitutional grounds (the technical legal argument that the Senate lacks jurisdiction to conduct a trial of a non-incumbent official)...

Home Health Columnist / Guide · Feb 3, 2021

Interesting read with some legalease explained.

LawFare Blog 02/03/2021

The Constitutionality of Trying a Former President Impeached While In Office

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...I interpret the Constitution to mean that a president who actively sought to overturn the results of a free and fair election to maintain himself in office as an unelected autocrat—and who has publicly proclaimed an intention to return to the presidency—can, having been impeached while in office by the House, be thereafter tried, convicted and disqualified from future office by the Senate. Professor Bobbitt says the Constitution prohibits the completion of this exercise in republican self-protection because the president sought to overthrow democracy late in his term and the Senate didn’t start his trial fast enough to allow both removal and disqualification. It’s hard to see how that squares with the structure of the Constitution or the evident purposes of its designers....

toomuchbaloney · Feb 4, 2021

The current defense is dependent upon a complicit and corrupt jury.

guest1163268 · Feb 4, 2021

11 hours ago, NRSKarenRN said:

Have you stocked up on Popcorn and snacks for the Super Bowl & next weeks trial... stock up by Friday, especially if in the Midwest and Northeast U.S. as another blizzard possible Sunday.

Fox News 02/02/2021

Graham warns Dems about calling witnesses during Trump impeachment

National Review 02/03/2021

Graham’s Threat Does Not Help Trump’s Defense

It might actually make things worse.

I think that Lindsay needs to be very careful because once Garland is confirmed and the justice Dept gets going with those RICO investigations, everybody is in jeopardy!

With RICO there's no claiming or faking especially for Trump etc. It was designed to catch those mafia bosses who Trump likes to emulate, re saying things but claiming that they didn't order anyone to do anything.

I think that is something Trump never considered re RICO being applied to him. It opens up investigations in a whole different way!

This could ensnare everyone involved in every scheme IMO. I especially want to see Stephen Miller and Mnuchin go down.

toomuchbaloney · Feb 4, 2021

Oh yeah...justice for Stephen Miller sounds titillating.

The Insurrection: Trump 2nd Impeachment Trial starts 2/09/2021

Text Messages Show Top Trump Campaign Fundraiser’s Key Role Planning the Rally That Preceded the Siege

What Parler Saw During the Attack on the Capitol

77 Days: Trump’s Campaign to Subvert the Election

Key Takeaways From Trump’s Effort to Overturn the Election

Democrats' impeachment filing: Trump 'threatened the constitutional system'

Trump argues impeachment trial is unconstitutional

Democrats' impeachment filing: Trump 'threatened the constitutional system'

Trump argues impeachment trial is unconstitutional