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White House, House Lawmakers Lay Out Impeachment Cases as Trial Looms


White House lawyers are due to submit Monday a brief detailing their arguments in the impeachment trial of U.S. President Donald Trump, a day before the proceedings begin in earnest.FILE: Jay Sekulow, one of president’s Trump lawyers. .In an earlier, shorter response to the articles of impeachment approved by the House of Representatives, lawyers Pat Cipollone and Jay Sekulow said the Senate must reject the charges against Trump because they “rest on dangerous distortions of the Constitution that would do lasting damage to our structure of government.”They argued the House is trying to undermine the president’s power to determine foreign …read more

Source:: Voice of America

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