Trump lawyers respond to articles of impeachment: ‘Constitutionally invalid’

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Slow motion coup. The articles are illegal. They are not constitutional. They do not meet the criteria.

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Trump lawyers respond to articles of impeachment: ‘Constitutionally invalid’

Trump lawyers respond to articles of impeachment: ‘Constitutionally invalid’

By Marisa Schultz | Fox News

President Trump’s legal team on Saturday issued a full-throttle defense to the articles of impeachment, refuting the substance and process of the charges while accusing House Democrats of engaging in a “dangerous attack” on the right of the American people to freely choose their president.

“This is a brazen and unlawful attempt to overturn the results of the 2016 election and interfere with the 2020 election — now just months away,” the legal filing said. “The highly partisan and reckless obsession with impeaching the president began the day he was inaugurated and continues to this day.”

“The articles of impeachment are constitutionally invalid on their face,” the seven-page filing continued.

The legal paperwork is the first formal response to the two articles of impeachment read in the Senate on Thursday for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.

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Trump’s lawyers argued that the articles of impeachment “violate the Constitution” and are “defective in their entirety” because they were the product of invalid House proceedings that “flagrantly denied the President any due process rights.”

At the crux of Trump’s defense is that he did nothing wrong in his July 25 phone call with the president of Ukraine when he asked for investigations into Democrats. The White House argues that military aid to Ukraine was ultimately released without any announcement of investigations into former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden.

The lawyers contend House Democrats fail to allege any crime or violation of law whatsoever, let alone, high crimes or misdemeanors.

“In order to preserve our constitutional structure of government, to reject the poisonous partisanship that the Framers warned against, to ensure one-party political impeachment vendettas do not become the ‘new normal,’ and to vindicate the will of the American people, the Senate must reject both Articles of Impeachment,” Trump’s legal team wrote. “In the end, this entire process is nothing more than a dangerous attack on the American people themselves and their fundamental right to vote.”
Alan Dershowitz to present oral argument at the impeachment.

The response is the first of many expected in the coming days from Trump’s growing legal team as they battle to acquit the commander in chief in the Senate impeachment trial.

The House impeachment managers released their opening trial briefing Saturday evening, and Trump’s lawyers will give their response by Monday at noon.

Adding to the Democrats’ case is a legal opinion Thursday from the Government Accountability Office (GAO), which found that the Trump administration broke the law by withholding defense aid to Ukraine. But a source close to Trump’s legal team rejected the findings and accused the GAO of trying to insert itself into the impeachment “news cycle.”

The third presidential impeachment trial formally began Thursday when Chief Justice John Roberts swore in the senators and each signed an “oath book” to cement their role as impartial jurors.

The trial will kick off in earnest Tuesday when House impeachment managers will prosecute the case and Trump’s lawyers will offer a robust defense over a period of days.

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MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago

$450,000 in gold pens and the Dem0rats claim to represent the common people? Maybe only in the sense Stalin and Lenin and Mao were members of the proletariat.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
4 years ago

Talk about gauche. If Pelosi had any class, she’d have used, and handed out, Mont Blanc Diplomats. Simply the epitome of low class.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago

Is that the Devil Dog talking? Or the attorney?

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
4 years ago

Neither. One was given to me around forty years ago. I, on my own dime, added the matching ballpoint pen and pencil. I believe that I still have them, in the same box as my DuPont lighters. What Nancy handed out was soooooooo new money.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago

I figure you would like a custom pen in the shape of a high powered rifle cartridge. You can’t deny its unique and sends a Dem0ratic message.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
4 years ago

I’ve never been a fan of those. I don’t know why. Just not my style.

Suresh
Suresh
4 years ago

If Trump is smart enough , he should pass E.O to ban all terror/crime/illegal/drug linked persons from coming to America and those who advocate for them should lose their assets/citizenship and deported/jailed as terror agents.

Most of demonrats will lose their assets , Left/liberal “Professors” can be purged as they support these ideas.

Unless this is done there will be never ending cases . And America will become like canada/EU

Like this Left/Liberal Loons Run Country has been turned into ISIS/jihadi base https://tinyurl.com/y74v5327

But corrupt MSM will not talk about it

AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
4 years ago

Leftist hate for America has no limits,…. and nothing is out-of-bounds !!comment image

Hans Wellington
Hans Wellington
4 years ago

Democrat voters should remember the wise words George Orwell said: “A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims but accomplices.”

Dennis
Dennis
4 years ago

Why it is not obvious to all of our electorate that the conduct of the Democratic party was motivated by their losing the 2016 election, and that their conduct is based on their unfounded “Trump syndrome,” is mind boggling to me. There is no High Crime charged, and there was no due process given. This is a major reason why our electorate must move away from their support of that Party.

John Acord
John Acord
4 years ago

I seldom disagree with Ms. Geller. A full trial is demanded by POTUS. McConnell is a wise old fox and we are all fortunate to have him in charge of this trial. Outright dismissal of the charges would provide endless drivel for the Commiecrats and their Dogfart Media hacks to whine for months that they charges were dismissed as part of a Republican cover-up. POTUS wants a trial. He has demanded an opportunity to expose the horrendous corruption of the Commiecrats. This entire process is a sham designed to cover up billions of dollars in corruption that implicates the entire Commierat party and their fellow travelers. Let’s get it on!

Stu Jones
Stu Jones
4 years ago
Reply to  John Acord

Agreed John, Trump gets his day in court, gets to face his accuser and put him in the rickety chair. Imagine the fall out from this plant. He gets Uncle Joe Biden up on the stand to explain his ‘Quid Pro Quo’, the real one that is, and then explain his drug addled son’s career in something he knows nothing about, and then get his son to explain even better. Then Schiff regarding the whistle-blower circus of first contact with his office and the bullshit from them on and why and how Schiff doesn’t know his identity. And as he goes get them to explain all the different offence he has been accused of committing and why he hasn’t been charged with those. Then get them to explain why he was not afforded due process. Everyone that is not a Trump hater can see through this rubbish, even the media, but they all hate Trump some much they are all willing to forego their morals and ethics to jump on the bandwagon of Democrat insanity. Once this circus is done, and I mean immediately that it is over, the Trump team should announce investigations into all the lies, perjury, abuse of power, cover ups and malfeasance that the all parties have taken part in, I’m talking DOJ, FBI, DNC and ANY OTHER ACRONYM DEPARTMENT THAT NEEDS TO BE BROUGHT TO HEEL. These are the people that should have stopped this in its tracks when the original fishing expedition began.

Porter G. Stone
Porter G. Stone
4 years ago

Those “GOLDEN PENS” are nothing but shrinked and stinking brooms for those worn Witches and Wizzards in their bizzar procession to institutionalize the LIE and the EVIL.
Did not work – they are just rickety Zombies.

Joensanford
Joensanford
4 years ago

She says one way or another, Trump won’t be President much longer, then makes bullet shaped pens. Is this a dog whistle?

CC
CC
4 years ago

This signing stunt of Pelosi is just that and will be remembered only in a footnote.

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