February 03, 2022 2:27 pm
The lawsuit from Alexander Vindman, who testified in 2019 impeachment proceedings about a phone call in which Trump pressed his Ukraine counterpart to investigate Democratic rival Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, was filed Wednesday in federal court in Washington.
February 13, 2021 5:46 pm
A verdict in Donald Trump's second impeachment trial is expected this weekend. While Trump's attorneys have wrapped up their arguments, the focus now is on Republicans as the Democrats need 17 GOP votes to convict Trump.
February 13, 2021 9:15 am
rump’s lawyers denied that he had incited what they called a “small group” that turned violent. Instead, they tried to turn the tables by calling out Democrats for their own language, which they deemed just as incendiary as Trump’s.
February 12, 2021 8:21 am
The prosecutors described in stark, personal terms the horror they faced that day and showed the many public and explicit instructions Trump gave his supporters — both in the weeks before the January 6 attack and at his midday rally that unleashed the mob on the Capitol.
February 11, 2021 9:30 am
Leading the charge on the Senate floor, Congressman Raskin alleged Trump willfully incited an insurrectionary mob to riot at the Capitol. Several of his Democratic colleagues took the Senate floor to argue that Trump be impeached.
February 10, 2021 9:57 pm
Trump is the first president in the American history to be impeached twice.
February 09, 2021 8:31 am
Michigan State University law professor Brian Kalt, a leading impeachment scholar, told Reuters in an email on Monday that his research was "definitely not" accurately described in the 78-page document.
February 08, 2021 10:19 pm
Trump's second impeachment trial is opening this week with a sense of urgency by Democrats who want to hold the former president accountable for the violent US Capitol siege and Republicans who want it over as fast as possible
February 08, 2021 11:47 am
Lawyer Charles J. Cooper, who is closely allied with top Republicans in Congress, dismissed as illogical the claim that it is unconstitutional to hold an impeachment trial for a former president.
February 03, 2021 12:58 pm
In Trump’s own shorter filing, specked with typos and stripped of the former president’s usual bombast, his lawyers flatly denied that he had incited the attack and repeatedly argued that the Senate “lacks jurisdiction” to try a former president.