Senate Has No Power To Impeach Me-Donald Trump
LAGOS FEBRUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former US President Donald Trump, has denied allegations that he instigated the Capitol riots.
He equally claimed that the US senate has no power to impeach him, noting that he “holds no public office from which he can be removed.”
On the 6th of January, 2021, alleged Trump’s supporters stormed the US Capitol in an alleged action to prevent the Congress from certifying the election of Joe Biden as President. However, on Tuesday, 2 February, 2021, Trump denied encouraging his supporters to invade US Capitol, arguing that the Senate doesn’t have the right to hold a trial over his impeachment by the House of Representatives.
In a 14-page answer to the sole article of impeachment against him (incitement of insurrection), Trump’s lawyers in the filing reject the idea that he “incited the crowd to engage in destructive behavior” when he spoke near the White House shortly before the Jan. 6 riots.
Lawyers Bruce Castor Jr. and David Schoen according to New York Post, wrote, “It is denied that the phrase ‘if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore’ had anything to do with the action at the Capitol as it was clearly about the need to fight for election security in general, as evidenced by the recording of the speech.”
The filing further says Trump didn’t intend “to interfere with the counting of Electoral votes “during the joint session of Congress that later certified President Biden’s victory and had the right” to express his belief that the election results were manipulated.
“Like all Americans, the 45th President is protected by the First Amendment. Indeed, he believes, and therefore avers, that the United States is unique on Earth in that its governing documents, the Constitution and Bill of Rights, specifically and intentionally protect unpopular speech from government retaliation”, his lawyers wrote.
The filing further claims that the Senate “lacks jurisdiction over the 45th President because he holds no public office from which he can be removed.”
Removal from office is the only “active remedy allowed under our Constitution,” making Trump’s impeachment “moot and a non-justiciable question”, his lawyers further argued.
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on Feb 4 2021. Filed under International, National.
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