Alan Dershowitz arrives at the Manhattan Federal Court in New York September 24, 2019. — Reuters pic
Beginning tomorrow, the chamber will meet six hours a day for six days a week in only the third impeachment trial of a US president, with lofty constitutional issues brushing up against raw partisan politics.Celebrity attorney Alan Dershowitz, a recent addition to Trump's legal team, argued yesterday that even if every charge sent by the House to the Senate for the president's trial were accepted as true, it would not rise to the level of impeachable behaviour.
Adam Schiff, the California lawmaker chosen by House Democrats as lead manager of the impeachment trial, dismissed the notion that abuse of power was not impeachable.“That's an argument you have to make if the facts are so dead set against you,” he said on ABC.
“The trial will take a much longer time, because the Democrats will call John Bolton, and the president will invoke executive privilege and it will have to go to the courts,” he said on CNN. Cornyn said he expected to see essentially the same rules as during the impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton in 1998. That would have both sides lay out their arguments before a possible vote by senators on whether to allow witnesses.
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
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