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SUBSCRIBE to EIR Daily Alert Service Chaos Engulfs Congress as Pelosi Shrieks, Pro-Trump Republicans Are ‘the Enemy Within’ Feb. 2 , 2021 (EIRNS)—One would never mistake the U.S. Congress as a place where actual work gets done on behalf of the American people. As Democrats prepare their insane drive to impeach former President Donald Trump, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) Jan. 17 charge that “the enemy is within the House of Representatives,” has exacerbated already sharp divisi...

Trumps Lawyers Mocked for Misspelling United States in Impeachment Trial Filing Newsweek 2/3/2021 Samantha Lock © Brendan Smialowski/Getty Former U.S. president Donald Trump speaks to the press at the White House on October 2, 2019, in Washington, DC. Trumps lawyers have responded to the allegation that he incited the January 6 Capitol insurrection. Lawyers representing Donald Trump are facing fierce ridicule over a slew of mistakes made in their initial filings in defense ...

READ: Excerpts from Democrats’ impeachment trial brief The House impeachment managers provided a detailed legal analysis in their pre-trial legal brief, filed Tuesday, about the constitutionality of charging Trump with incitement of insurrection. Excerpts of the brief are available below: “On January 6, 2021, with Vice President Michael Pence presiding, Congress assembled to perform one of its most solemn constitutional responsibilities: the counting of electoral votes for President of the ...

Trump accused of grievous betrayal in impeachment trial brief Updated Feb 02, 2021 | 21:21 IST In a grievous betrayal of his oath of office, President Trump incited a violent mob to attack the United States Capitol during the Joint Session, said Democrats. Former US President Donald Trump&nbsp | &nbspPhoto Credit:&nbspAP Washington: US impeachment managers denounced Donald Trumps alleged incitement of insurrection as "a betrayal of historic proportions" Tuesday as they un...

House Impeachment Managers Say Trump Singularly Responsible For Capitol Attack In a memorandum filed ahead of the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump, the House Democrats who will prosecute the case argued that Mr. Trump was "singularly responsible" for the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of his supporters that left five people dead.  On January 6, a mob of insurrectionists overran the Capitol in a deadly assault with the goal of overturning the election res...

Close icon Two crossed lines that form an X. It indicates a way to close an interaction, or dismiss a notification. Impeachment managers walking to deliver the article of impeachment for former President Donald Trump on Jan. 25th, 2021. Photo By Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images Trumps defense team on Tuesday filed their first brief about the former presidents upcoming impeachment trial. His lawyers argue that Trump being p...

Trump’s actions described as a ’betrayal of historic proportions’ in impeachment trial brief By Reuters Share Washington – House Democrats made their case to convict former president Donald Trump of inciting the January 6 riot at the US Capitol in a sweeping impeachment brief filed with the Senate on Tuesday. Trump is accused of jeopardising the foundations of American democracy by whipping his supporters into a "frenzy" for the sole purpose of retaining his hold on the pres...

House impeachment managers say Trump "singularly responsible" for Capitol attack By Grace Segers Impeachment managers say Trump responsible for riot Washington — In a memorandum filed ahead of the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump, the House Democrats who will prosecute the case argued that Mr. Trump was "singularly responsible" for the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of his supporters that left five people dead.  On January 6, a mob ...

Their legal brief details for the first time the arguments that Democrats will present at the impeachment trial that begins next week.  “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,” the brief stated. Lawyers for Mr. Trump are due to file their own brief on Tuesday. One of those attorneys, David Schoen, said on Fox News that will argue the impeachment trial of a private ...

Trump’s legal team argues Senate can’t convict him, his speech protected by 1st Amendment Former President Donald Trump’s legal team argued Tuesday that he cannot be convicted by the Senate because he is no longer in office, previewing what’s likely to be one of the biggest points of contention during Trump’s Senate impeachment trial that begins next week. Trump’s lawyers filed a 14-page response to the House’s impeachment effort on Tuesday, its first filing ahead of the trial. Tr...