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Delivered to your inbox every weekday evening, our politics and policy newsletters are a daily digest of today's news and what's expected to break tomorrow. National Security. Agency Insider. Don't miss a brief. Sign up for our daily email. Your Email. Contributors Become a Contributor. Stone dropped that appeal after the then-President commuted his prison sentence, but before Stone received a full presidential pardon for convictions , including lying to Congress to protect Trump.
Schoen, who holds a master of laws from Columbia University and a juris doctorate from Boston College, according to his biography, serves as chair of the American Bar Association's Criminal Justice Subcommittee of the Civil Rights Litigation Committee. Castor, meanwhile, served as Montgomery County district attorney from to , before serving two terms as the county commissioner, according to a release from Trump's office.
He was involved in at least one high-profile case as district attorney, when he declined in to prosecute Bill Cosby after Andrea Constand reported the actor had touched her inappropriately at his home in Montgomery County, citing "insufficient credible and admissible evidence.
Cosby was later tried and convicted in for drugging and sexually assaulting Constand at his home in , despite the fact that Castor argued during a pre-trial hearing that he'd already committed the state to not prosecuting the actor. Read more about the lawyers here. Bruce Castor Jr. After a short break, the Senate is now back in session for the first day of Trump's second impeachment trial.
They are in the middle of a four-hour debate on the constitutionality of the proceeding against the former President. The House impeachment managers presented their points and showed footage of the Capitol riot before the break, and Trump's lawyers now have their turn to speak. Trump's defense lawyer Bruce Castor Jr.
Heading into the impeachment trial this afternoon, some GOP senators said no matter what they heard their minds wouldn't be changed. Probably not," he added. The Senate is in the middle of a four-hour debate on the constitutionality of the impeachment proceeding against former President Trump.
Lead impeachment manager Rep. So after this whirlwind of options we end up back where we started. The impeachment decision boils down to one political question: would impeaching the President help or hurt the party in the next election? Would a symbolic vote, which would not result in removal from office, pay electoral dividends or alienate moderate voters?
There is a reasonable argument that the Republican Party, with a House majority insulated from electoral pain through a combination of safe districts packed with conservative constituents, would not hesitate to impeach Obama. He has been enemy number one since he stepped into office. The House could impeach the President now and get the same result that they would get after the Elections regardless of Senate control. It contributed to a loss of seats and the resignation of then Speaker Newt Gingrich.
While there are likely several Members in the conference eager to impeach the president, the leaders in both chambers, who witnessed impeachment first-hand in , are almost certainly opposed to it. In either case, Senate control is almost entirely irrelevant to impeaching Obama. The constitutional super-majority requirement prevents a majority from taking such brash action.
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