House Democrats on Monday categorically rejected the legal argument put forward by the former President Trump
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In a legal brief filed by the nine Democratic managers of the ouster, lawmakers argue that Trump incited the crowd of his supporters who carried out the Jan. 6 attack and said Congress has every right to condemn the former president to prevent him from returning to senior positions. .
“The Chamber states that all the allegations in the article on impeachment are true and that all the affirmative and legal defenses set out in the Response are totally without merit,” the managers wrote.
The filing is just the latest in the round-trip exchange of legal documents between the two sides ahead of the Senate indictment trial, which kicks off Tuesday.
House Democrats, united by ten Republicans, accused Trump on Jan. 13, exactly one week after the siege of the Capitol. In the weeks leading up to the attack, Trump had trumpeted false claims that rampant election fraud had “stolen” his election. Hours before the siege, he amplified these empty accusations and urged thousands of supporters to march on the Capitol, where Congress certified the victory of his opponent, President Joe Biden
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The ensuing attack forced lawmakers to evacuate both chambers and resulted in several deaths, including those of a Capitoline police officer and an anti-rioting that was shot by another officer as he tried to break into the Capitol. Orator’s lobby right at the foot of the house.
Trump’s defense team, led by David Schoen and Bruce Castor, issued a lengthy legal brief Monday arguing that his client cannot be convicted because the Constitution does not allow for the removal of former presidents.
Trump’s lawyers also argue that the former president had the rights to the first amendment both to question the outcome of an electoral process he considered corrupt and to urge his supporters to protest those results. If some of the crowd became violent later, the lawyers added, just because they misinterpreted Trump’s message.
“The truth is that people who criminally violated the Capitol did so of their own free will and for their own reasons, and are being prosecuted,” the defense document says.
They demanded that the charges be withdrawn “immediately”.
Democrats have a completely different view of Trump’s guilt, and his single indictment accuses the former president of “inciting insurrection.”
In his writing Monday, the dismissal managers, led by Rep. Jamie Raskin
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“Presidents swear a sacred oath that binds them from their first day in office until the last,” they wrote. “There is no ‘January exception’ in the Constitution that allows presidents to abuse power in their last days without accountability.”
Democrats also rejected the First Amendment defense, saying Trump’s language, particularly at the Jan. 6 rally before the siege, was intrinsically violent and could only be interpreted as a call to arms against his political opponents. to the Chapters.
“When President Trump demanded the armed and angry crowd of his America Save rally“ fight like hell ”or“ that you will no longer have a country, ”he did not urge them to form political action committees on“ electoral security “in general,” the Democrats wrote.
“The House did not accuse President Trump of expressing an unpopular political opinion,” they added. “He accused him because he deliberately provoked a violent insurrection against the government.”