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Attack unlike any weve seen in our lives. The managers case straightforward and comments by his violence supporters to show he instigated the attack and plan to rebut the notion a president cannot be tried after leaving office. As for the defense, well, their brief begins with a mistake, a pretty sloppy one at the top of page one as you see there, the lawyers misspelled United States. Those are the ex president s lawyers. From there they argue an ex president cannot be convicted on constitutiona...

Honor, ra a reminder of the insurrection that caused his death on the 6th of january. The United States senators whose lives and staffers lives he died protecting is being asked to show bravery, as well. House Impeachment Managers and the ex president s legal team today presented their briefs in next weeks Impeachment Trial and the insurrection at the heart of that trial is not ancient history. They will be weighing decisions with the seat of American Democracy and their workplace still showing ...

mcenany, here with my co-host emily compagno, fox business anchor and co-host of "the bottom line," dagen mcdowell, and cheryl casone and "fox and friends" weekends pete hegseth. we are live outside the federal courthouse in birmingham, alabama. jonathan. >> jonathan: hi, joran van der sloot was brought to the federal courthouse you see behind me, earlier this morning. we expect the arraignment to get underway momentarily, will joran van der sloot will answer the federal charges of wir...

extremists." a phrase you can expect to hear a lot of in the coming months. these two likely opponents and spends zero time on threats from a broad, on china or russia in this particular ad. 60% of americans have low confidence in the presidents ability to handle an international crisis, which is likely on the watch of this next president. 80% of americans are dissatisfied with the way that things are going in the country right now. a lot to dig into as we start to get a look at the sh...

Somebody caught in the middle of it, and that does not excuse the person from the consequences. Professors, we have talked about abuse of power and bribery when we started, we said we would also discuss obstruction of congress. So i would like to ask you some questions about obstruction of congress. Professor gerhardt, in your view, is there enough evidence here to charge President Trump with a high crime and misdemeanor of obstruction of congress . I think that there is more than enough. As i m...

Evidence. This will set a dangerous precedent where impeachment becomes the norm rather than the exception. Thats not what our Founding Fathers intended. They wanted impeachment to be rare. They set a high bar for impeachment, treason, bribery, high crimes and misdemeanors. Alleged abuse of power. The first article is not a high crime and misdemeanor. In fact, its not even a crime. And since there is no concise Legal Definition of abuse of power, the Majority Party in the house can designate nea...

Something extraordinary is set to happen on Thursday: The Supreme Court will interpret part of the Constitution for the first time. Neither the justices nor any of their predecessors have ever heard a case about the Disqualification Clause, a post-Civil War provision in the Fourteenth Amendment that bars participants in “insurrection or rebellion” from holding political office. The court is stepping out into freshly fallen snow.The stakes in Trump v. Anderson could not be higher. I...

The push to use the Constitution to disqualify the 45th president from retaking the White House could soon come to a head at the nation’s highest court.

If history and precedent is any guide, the former president should not expect respite from the justices.

The standoff over presidential immunity in former President Donald Trump’s criminal cases is now before the Supreme Court. Special counsel Jack Smith filed an accelerated motion before the justices on Monday to ask them to review the matter as quickly as possible.Smith asked the justices to consider two questions: first, whether a former president is “absolutely immune from federal prosecution for crimes committed while in office,” and second, whether a former president is &...