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2021-02-01 -Land of the Free
After other attorneys leave, Trump names 2 lawyers to impeachment defense team
[IsraelTimes] One lawyer is best known for declining to charge Bill Cosby with rape while serving as district attorney near Philadelphia.

Donald Trump
...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party...
on Sunday named two lawyers to his impeachment defense team, one day after it was revealed that the former president had parted ways with an earlier set of attorneys.

The two lawyers representing him will be David Schoen, a criminal defense lawyer with offices in Alabama and New York, and Bruce Castor, a former county prosecutor in Pennsylvania. Both issued statements through a Trump adviser saying that they were honored to take the job.

"The strength of our Constitution is about to be tested like never before in our history. It is strong and resilient. A document written for the ages, and it will triumph over partisanship yet again, and always," said Castor, who served as district attorney for Montgomery County, outside of Philadelphia, from 2000 to 2008.

Trump’s team revealed Saturday that several South Carolina lawyers who were set to represent him at the trial starting next week were no longer participating.

Trump, the first president in American history to be impeached twice, is set to stand trial in the Senate on a charge that he incited his supporters to storm Congress on Jan. 6 as politicians met to certify Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Candidate for president in 2020. We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created ... by the — you know — you know, the thing...
’s electoral victory.

Republicans and Trump aides have made clear that they intend to make a simple argument in the trial: Trump’s trial is unconstitutional because he is no longer in office. Legal scholars say there is no bar to an impeachment trial despite Trump having left the White House.

"The Democrats’ efforts to impeach a president who has already left office is totally unconstitutional and so bad for our country," Trump adviser Jason Miller has said.

Castor is as well-known in Pennsylvania for a case that he did not bring as he is for any of the prosecutions that he brought. He declined to charge actor Bill Cosby after a woman went to police in suburban Philadelphia in 2005 to say that Cosby had drugged and molested her a year earlier.

A new prosecutor arrested Cosby in 2015 after documents from her 2005 civil suit against Cosby were unsealed, revealing Cosby’s damaging testimony about sexual encounters with the woman, Andrea Constand, and others.

Related: Why Five of Trump's Impeachment Lawyers Are Out
Posted by trailing wife 2021-02-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top

#1 The Dems and the Bar are going after his team, yet again.
Posted by 49 Pan 2021-02-01 14:28||   2021-02-01 14:28|| Front Page Top

#2 Everybody is entitled to a defense. Except Trump, of course.
Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2021-02-01 15:07||   2021-02-01 15:07|| Front Page Top

#3 I really, really, really want this impeachment to go forward.

But not for the same reasons Nancy Pelosi does; I wonder how hard Mr. Leahy is thinking about discovery...
Posted by Anomalous Sources 2021-02-01 22:20||   2021-02-01 22:20|| Front Page Top

#4 After Sidney Powell and Rudy...and Bill Barr, just 'cuz, I grow weary of stories about Trump's lawyers.
Posted by Clem 2021-02-01 22:27||   2021-02-01 22:27|| Front Page Top

#5  I wonder how hard Mr. Leahy is thinking about discovery...

It’s the Senate. Do rules about discovery, innocent until proven guilty, and all the rest apply?
Posted by trailing wife 2021-02-01 22:33||   2021-02-01 22:33|| Front Page Top

#6 How old is Leahy? Pelosi? Biden? Feinstein? Schumer?

And they complained about Reagan being too old to be prez? GTFOH!
Posted by Clem 2021-02-01 22:42||   2021-02-01 22:42|| Front Page Top

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