{"id":122275,"date":"2021-02-09T14:17:02","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T19:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=122275"},"modified":"2021-02-09T15:21:24","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T20:21:24","slug":"senate-impeachment-trial-starts-as-democrats-argue-its-constitutional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-impeachment-trial-starts-as-democrats-argue-its-constitutional\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Impeachment Trial Starts, as Democrats Argue It\u2019s Constitutional"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsenate-impeachment-trial-starts-as-democrats-argue-its-constitutional%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=122275&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>As the second Senate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-impeachment\">impeachment<\/a> trial of former President Donald <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-trump\">Trump<\/a> started in earnest on Tuesday afternoon, House Democratic impeachment managers said that the Senate has the full constitutional authority to put Trump on trial\u2014coming after his lawyers argued that it is unconstitutional to try a former president.<\/p>\n<p>Trump \u201crefuses to accept responsibility for his actions\u201d and his pre-trial brief \u201chighlights the danger he continues to pose to the Nation he betrayed,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/f\/?id=00000177-879a-dccf-a777-ff9e4f9a0000\">said<\/a> the impeachment managers, a group led by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) in a rebuttal on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Trump\u2019s attorneys laid out a case as to why the impeachment charge should be dismissed. Last month, all Democrats and 10 Republicans in the House impeached Trump for allegedly inciting an insurrection, saying that his speech on Jan. 6 led to the riots at the Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s lawyers and the former president himself have denied that he incited violence, saying that he called on supporters to peacefully make their voices heard. His lawyers have argued that his comments were protected under the First Amendment, adding that the Senate cannot try a former president who doesn\u2019t hold office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe language of the Constitution gives the Senate \u2018the sole Power to try all Impeachments\u2019\u2014not just impeachments involving sitting officials,\u201d Democrats wrote in response.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate trial is likely doomed to fail. Forty-five Republican senators voted against holding the trial several weeks ago when it came to the Senate floor; the upper chamber requires 67 votes to convict a president.<\/p>\n<p>Arguments on Tuesday are being led by Raskin as well as Reps.\u00a0Joe Neguse (D-Colo.) and David Cicilline (D-R.I.), who are members of the House Judiciary panel.<\/p>\n<p>As for how long the trial is scheduled to last,\u00a0Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said he came to an agreement on Monday night with Republicans on the timing and framework.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3691153 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1231064247-1200x636-1.jpg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"640\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) presides over the first day of former President Donald Trump\u2019s second impeachment trial at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Feb. 9, 2021.\u00a0 (Congress.gov via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>Another argument that the former president\u2019s attorneys will attempt, according to their brief on Monday, is an attempt to dispel the notion that Trump did nothing during the Capitol breach on Jan. 6. They wrote that there\u00a0was a \u201cflurry of activity\u201d in the administration to get more security to the Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>The impeachment \u201cwas only ever a selfish attempt by Democratic leadership in the House to prey upon the feelings of horror and confusion that fell upon all Americans across the entire political spectrum upon seeing the destruction at the Capitol on January 6 by a few hundred people,\u201d Trump\u2019s lawyers added. \u201cInstead of acting to heal the nation, or at the very least focusing on prosecuting the lawbreakers who stormed the Capitol, the Speaker of the House and her allies have tried to callously harness the chaos of the moment for their own political gain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the lawmakers, there will be four hours of debate on Tuesday about whether the trial should be dismissed. Several weeks ago, 45 GOP senators voted to reject holding the impeachment trial, suggesting that the former president will not be convicted\u2014as the Senate requires 67 votes to convict a president.<\/p>\n<p>After that, there will be up to 16 hours for each side to present their cases starting on Wednesday at 12 p.m. ET. Then, there will be a total of four hours for senators to question both sides. Should witnesses or documents be subpoenaed, more time may be allotted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the second Senate impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump started in earnest on Tuesday afternoon, House Democratic impeachment managers said that the Senate has the full constitutional authority &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1893006,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4851,3685,3636,3740,6019,4853],"class_list":["post-122275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-argue","tag-democrats","tag-impeachment","tag-senate","tag-starts","tag-trial"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}