CONGRESS/IMPEACHMENT: “Lawyers for Donald Trump are rejecting the House managers’ case for convicting the former president, calling it unconstitutional ‘political theater’ and urging the Senate to dismiss the case…
Trump’s attorneys allege in their brief that the article of impeachment passed by the House last month is unconstitutional. The Senate, they argue, lacks jurisdiction to try Trump because he is no longer president and therefore cannot be removed from office, which they assert is a constitutional requirement…
Trump’s lawyers also deny he incited the insurrection, which took place shortly after the then-president spoke to his supporters and urged them to ‘fight like hell.'”
-Ryan Lucas, “Trump Lawyers Reject Impeachment Case, Calling It ‘Political Theater,'” npr.org, Feb. 8, 2021