Senate impeachment trial

Witnesses at the first major congressional hearing on the Capitol riot testified that they did not expect the building to be targeted by violence — directly contradicting what Democrats told the Senate impeachment trial earlier this month.

The vast majority of Americans believe U.S. senators based their final impeachment vote on “partisan politics” rather than facts, an ABC News/Ipsos poll released Monday revealed.

The York County, Pennsylvania, Republican committee voted Saturday night to censure Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) after he cast a guilty vote against former President Donald Trump at the end of the weeklong impeachment trial.

Hollywood director and screenwriter Billy Ray is calling for the “political eradication” of the Republican senators who voted to acquit former president Donald Trump, saying that they must be voted out of office, “hounded” into retirement, or convicted.

They defeated what Trump defense attorney Michael van der Veen mocked as the “Raskin Doctrine”: the idea that only Democrats are entitled to free speech.

The Louisiana GOP unanimously voted to censure Sen. Bill Cassidy following his vote to convict former President Donald Trump in the Senate’s impeachment trial.

Senate Democrats blamed House impeachment managers for not informing them they wanted to vote for witnesses until Saturday morning.

The just-completed impeachment trial of former President Donald J. Trump in the U.S. Senate provided cover for the administration to move forward with plans to implement President Joe Biden’s open border policies.

During the fourth day of Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, attorneys for the former president went on the offensive by playing clips of Madonna, Johnny Depp, and several prominent Democrats including Joe Biden and Kamala Harris promoting physical violence.

Michael van der Veen, one of the attorneys defending former President Donald Trump in his Senate impeachment trial, accused House impeachment managers Friday of attempting to intimidate Trump’s lawyers.

Lawyers representing former President Donald Trump demolished the Charlottesville “very fine people” hoax on Friday in his Senate impeachment trial, playing the full video in which Trump said neo-Nazis should be “condemned totally.”

Former President Trump’s lawyers on Friday presented a montage showing Trump’s high profile critics promoting and condoning violence, featuring President Joe Biden, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), and more. 

At least a dozen Republican Senators reportedly walked out of the Senate impeachment trial on Thursday, after lead House impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) tried to argue that years of Trump rallies were incitement to violence.

The House impeachment managers could not prove incitement — the central charge in the Article of Impeachment. Then-President Donald Trump told supporters to protest “peacefully and patriotically.” No court could convict him on the facts.

The Democrats then made their case in the impeachment trial. Here are the main points — the highlights, and the lowlights — thus far.

Lead House impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) used the infamous Charlottesville “very fine people” hoax to argue that the Senate had to convict former President Donald Trump to prevent him from running for office ever again.

House impeachment managers argued Wednesday afternoon that then-President Donald Trump had not only incited the January 6 Capitol riot with his speech, but had secretly planned the riot by conspiring with the Proud Boys, among others.

Democrats argued Wednesday that the Capitol riot was not the result of “one speech,” despite the fact that the article of impeachment passed by the House of Representatives last month claimed that President Donald Trump’s Jan. 6 incited it.

Hollywood celebrities were glued to their TVs as the Senate kicked off its impeachment trial of  Donald Trump on Tuesday. The stars took to social media to live tweet their feelings, which included contempt for Trump’s defense team and a desire to see the former president convicted as early as possible.

The Louisiana Republican Party stated it is “profoundly disappointed” in Sen. Bill Cassidy’s vote on the constitutionality of impeachment.

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) was seemingly emotional — appearing to almost cry — while he recalled being with his youngest daughter Tabitha at the Capitol on January 6 as he presented arguments supporting the Democrat-led push to impeach former President Donald Trump on Tuesday.

Constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley refuted a claim by House impeachment manager Rep. Joe Neguse (D-CO) in real time on Tuesday, after the Democrat tried to argue that Turley believed a former president could be impeached and tried.

Lead House impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), who objected to the certification of 2017 election results, and promised to impeach President Donald Trump as soon as he took office, argued Tuesday that is is constitutional to impeach a former president.

Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan (R) wrote Tuesday Democrats have an “obsession” with impeaching Donald Trump because “they’re scared of him.”

“Let us stop pouring salt in the wounds of America for no reason at all.” – Jamie Raskin, Lead House impeachment manager, January 7.

Democrats reiterated Monday a threat to punish former President Donald Trump for not testifying at the impeachment trial in the Senate, which begins Tuesday.

There do not seem to be any examples, however, of defendants claiming that Trump told them specifically to commit violence.

Former President Donald Trump should use this unconstitutional impeachment trial to force a national conversation on democratic principles and election integrity.

Trump’s lawyers argue the impeachment trial is unconstitutional, and that the House’s factual claims against the former president are false.

Former President Donald Trump named a new legal team Sunday to present his defense at the Senate impeachment trial currently under way, after several members of the team were reported to have left the team on Saturday.

Lawyers who had been preparing President Donald Trump’s defense for his Senate impeachment trial have reportedly quit over his insistence that they present a defense that involves claims of election fraud in several states in the 2020 election.

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki claimed Tuesday that President Joe Biden could still achieve “unity” with 74 million supporters of Donald Trump despite urging the Senate to hold a trial of the former president.

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), considered one of the swing-votes in the upper-chamber, on Monday responded to President Donald Trump’s criticism of the lawmaker’s vote to convict him during the Senate impeachment trial last week.

Mississippi State head coach Mike Leach tweeted and then deleted, tweets critical of Utah Senator Mitt Romney after his vote to convict President Trump in his impeachment trial

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) voted to convict President Donald Trump on Wednesday on one article of abuse of power, giving Democrats the ability to tout bipartisan support for impeachment and thrilling leftists who bashed Romney eight years ago when he was running for president.

The governor of Alaska called House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) “ridiculous” after he suggested Monday that President Donald Trump could sell Alaska to Russia if he is acquitted.