First impeachment trial of Donald TrumpChief Justice John Roberts presides over the first impeachment trial of Donald TrumpAccusedDonald Trump, President of the United StatesProponentsAdam Schiff (lead manager) Jerry Nadler Hakeem Jeffries Zoe Lofgren Val Demings Jason Crow Sylvia Garcia4 more rows
Impeachment inquiry against Donald TrumpAccusedDonald Trump, 45th President of the United StatesProponentsNancy Pelosi (Speaker of the House of Representatives) Adam Schiff (Chair of the House Intelligence Committee) Jerry Nadler (Chair of the House Judiciary Committee)16 more rows
Eric Herschmann, a lawyer who represented former President Donald Trump during his first impeachment trial and later became a central figure in battles over the election results, left behind a $3.3 million partnership share at Kasowitz Benson Torres to join the Trump White House last year, according to a newly filed ...Nov 16, 2021
Washington, D.C., U.S. David Schoen is an American attorney specializing in federal criminal defense and civil rights law. He was one of the attorneys who represented former president Donald Trump during his second impeachment trial in the United States Senate.
JohnsonThe Impeachment of Andrew Johnson (1868) President of the United StatesMar 27, 1867Congress passed the Tenure of Office Act.Feb 24, 1868House voted 126 to 47 to impeach Johnson of high crimes and misdemeanors.Feb 25, 1868House informed Senate of impeachment vote.14 more rows
After the House of Representatives sends its articles of impeachment to the Senate, the Senate sits as a High Court of Impeachment to consider evidence, hear witnesses, and vote to acquit or convict the impeached official. A committee of representatives, called “managers,” act as prosecutors before the Senate.
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Analysis note: Starr comes to this role with relevant experience and a reputation for zealotry. As independent counsel, he led the investigation into the Clintons and the Whitewater real estate deal, which led to the impeachment of President Bill Clinton. The addition of Starr to the legal team will invariably invite comparisons to Clinton’s ...
Additionally, Starr told Fox News host Laura Ingraham last year that he was “in the room” when the sweetheart plea deal for Jeffrey Epstein was cut more than a decade ago with Alex Acosta, the prosecutor in the case at the time, who was forced to resign as Trump’s labor secretary last summer for his role in the case.
Dershowitz was sued last year by one of Epstein’s accusers: Virginia Giuffre, previously known as Virginia Roberts, said Dershowitz falsely claimed she had fabricated the accusations.
Pat Cipollone. Current job: He took over from Don McGahn as White House counsel in October of 2018. Background: After undergrad at Fordham, Cipollone graduated from the University of Chicago Law School and spent part of his career as an assistant to Bill Barr in his first stint as attorney general in the early '90s.
Background: Ray succeeded Starr as independent counsel during the investigations of Clinton and issued the final reports. Prior to that, he served as assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.
Pam Bondi, Florida's attorney general, in Washington in February. On Thursday, she called on victims across the country who may have been sexually abused by a priest in Florida to use a tip line to contact her office. Zach Gibson / Bloomberg via Getty Images file.
He’s created a kind of mini-media empire that includes a daily radio show, " Jay Sekulow Live! ," hosted most recently by his son Jordan. For further reading, see this NYT profile. Newly appointed independent counsel Robert Ray poses for photographers in Washington on Oct. 25, 1999.
Starr is the former independent counsel whose investigation of Clinton led to the president's impeachment. Starr 's probe focused on an affair between the president and White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
Trump picked him to replace Don McGahn as White House counsel in October 2018. Two of his deputies — Pat Philbin and Mike Purpura — will also play a role.
"He's probably the best constitutional lawyer who will be participating," said Ty Cobb, a former White House lawyer who worked closely with Sekulow on the White House response to the Russia investigation. Enlarge this image.
Mark Wilson/Getty Images. Alan Dershowitz. Dershowitz is a Harvard Law professor emeritus known for defending celebrities like O.J. Simpson and Mike Tyson. For the impeachment trial, he said his role will be limited to constitutional arguments.
Eric Herschmann. Herschmann is a partner at New York law firm Kasowitz, Benson, Torres. That firm is led by Marc Kasowitz, who represented Trump before he became president, and was briefly Trump's lawyer for the Russia probe. Enlarge this image.
Pam Bondi, former Florida attorney general, moves from impeachment communications to the trial defense team. Bondi is the former Florida attorney general whom Trump originally picked to help with White House communications during the House impeachment inquiry hearings. Now, she will move to join the defense team.
Jane Raskin. Raskin is a former federal prosecutor and veteran defense lawyer from the Miami area . She and her husband worked with Sekulow and Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani during the Mueller probe.
Schoen was on the team of lawyers representing Roger Stone, Trump's longtime friend and former adviser, in the appeal of his conviction related to issues Stone took with the jury.
The harsh comments come as both Castor and David Schoen, a seasoned civil and criminal lawyer, begin their defense of Trump during the multi-day Senate trial, in which the body's members will sit in judgment of a former President who faces the impeachment charge of inciting a deadly insurrection at the US Capitol.
Three of the lawyers defending Donald Trump in his impeachment trial – from left, Jay Sekulow, Eric Herschmann and Pat Cipollone – arrive at the Senate. Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA
Another household name in the US, Starr was the aggressive independent counsel who spearheaded the investigation that culminated in the impeachment of President Bill Clinton two decades ago. The Starr report, and the 11 charges against Clinton that went with it, propelled him into international notoriety as the Republican scourge out to get a popular Democratic leader. He has refused to apologize to Monica Lewinsky, the White House intern who became the focus of the investigation as he tried to extract evidence about her tryst with Clinton.
Jay Sekulow. Already known as one of the president’s personal lawyers , Sekulow defended Trump throughout the Mueller investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. He’s a popular name among conservative media circles as a radio and TV show host.
The Floridian is a former federal attorney, focused on organized crime and racketeering. Raskin worked with Sekulow and Rudy Giuliani defending Trump in the Mueller investigation. She served as first assistant to the US attorney for the district of Massachusetts before joining the justice department’s criminal division as an assistant attorney.
The day of the attack, many House Democrats, including Seth Moulton, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Katherine Clark, called for Trump's immediate impeachment and removal by Congress, or via the 25th Amendment.
Impeachment begins in the House of Representatives, where articles of impeachment are drawn up. These articles are then voted on by House members. Each article is voted on separately and requires a simple majority to pass. Once an article has been passed in the House, the president has been impeached. The articles are then sent to the Senate for adjudication with an impeachment trial. After views have been laid out in the trial, the Senate moves to vote on conviction. Each article requires a two-thirds majority of Senators present to pass. If an article passes in the Senate, the president has been convicted and is removed from office. Once the president is convicted, a further vote may then be held which determines whether the (now-former) president is barred from holding future office; this vote passes with a simple majority in the Senate.
on January 6, on the day that Congress was counting the electoral votes, to the "March to Save America" rally on the National Mall. At the rally, Trump as well as other speakers repeated the false claims that the election was stolen, used the word "fight", made an analogy to boxing, and suggested that his supporters had the power to prevent President-elect Joe Biden from taking office.
Individuals from media and political organizations have expressed support for Trump to be either impeached or removed through the methods outlined in the 25th Amendment. Any impeachment by the House of Representatives would, for removal, require a trial and conviction in the Senate, with the concurrence of two-thirds of Senators present and voting, during which time Trump would remain in office. As of January 8, the extent of support among Senators for an impeachment process is unclear, particularly given the length of time necessary to organize a trial and the short duration remaining of Trump's presidency. Poll aggregate website FiveThirtyEight noted that roughly 85% of Democrats, 49% of Independents, and 16% of Republicans supported impeachment. The site also found roughly a 8% drop in Trump's approval ratings following the attack.
The House impeachment managers formally triggered the start of the impeachment trial on January 25 by delivering to the Senate the charge against Trump.
On January 11, 2021, U.S. Representatives David Cicilline, along with Jamie Raskin and Ted Lieu, introduced an article of impeachment against Trump, charging Trump with "incitement of insurrection" in urging his supporters to march on the Capitol building.
Four scenarios for the removal of Trump from office had been posited by members of Congress, members of Trump's cabinet, political commentators, or legal scholars: resignation, the invocation of the 14th Amendment, invocation of the 25th Amendment, or impeachment and conviction.
Pam Bondi. Pam Bondi, a special advisor to Trump, speaks as part of his defense team during the Senate impeachment trial, January 29, 2020. (Source: C-SPAN) Another registered lobbyist who defended the president is Pam Bondi, a former Florida attorney general.
Dershowitz controversially said in Trump’s defense on the Senate floor in January that “if a president does something which he believes will help him get elected in the public interest, that cannot be the kind of quid pro quo that results in impeachment.”.
Exhibit A is the president’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who, rather than participating in Trump’s defense during the impeachment trial, was himself a major topic of debate on the Senate floor. Giuliani’s name appears hundreds of times in the House Judiciary Committee’s report accompanying the articles of impeachment.
Delaney Marsco, Legal Counsel for Ethics, Campaign Legal Center. For some of the period Trump has been his pro bono client, Giuliani told Reuters he was paid $500,000 by his associate Lev Parnas, who was recently indicted for violating campaign finance laws.
(Source: C-SPAN) Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard law professor known for representing celebrity criminal defendants, also has other business before the Trump administration.
Jay Sekulow. Jay Sekulow, a personal attorney to Trump, speaks during the Senate impeachment trial, January 29, 2020. (Source: C-SPAN) Until its recent indictment by the Justice Department for money laundering and violating sanctions against Iran, state-owned Turkish bank Halkbank was another of Ballard’s clients.
Marc Owens, a former top IRS official , told the Associated Press this month that the IRS should investigate. “This is an apparent web of organizations that seem to exist to pay compensation to Sekulow and his family members,” said Owens.
This is an opportunity to assume immediate responsibility in a busy trial group and to work collaboratively with partners as a key member of the team.
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