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On Feb. 11, 2021, at 12:00 p.m., the Senate will convene to resume the second Senate impeachment trial against former President Donald Trump. Trump is charged with incitement of insurrection for his role in stoking the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol with baseless claims of a stolen election.
You can watch a livestream of the trial here or below:
On Feb. 10, 2021, at 12:00 p.m., the Senate will convene to resume the second Senate impeachment trial against former President Donald Trump. Trump is charged with incitement of insurrection for his role in stoking the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol with baseless claims of a stolen election.
You can watch a livestream of the trial here or below:
A summary of each day’s trial proceedings with analysis and reflections.
The overriding question in the pending trial is whether the Senate trial will be the occasion for a seminal judgment on Trump’s conception of the office of the presidency.
On Feb. 9, 2021, at 1:00 p.m., the second Senate impeachment trial against former President Donald Trump is slated to begin. Trump is charged with incitement of insurrection for his role in stoking the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol with baseless claims of a stolen election.
You can watch a livestream of the trial here or below:
The impeachment managers refuted Trump’s legal team’s claim that the former president engaged in free speech protected by the First Amendment when he claimed voter fraud and urged his supporters to “fight like hell.”
Former President Trump’s legal team filed a brief with the Senate on Feb. 8 outlining their defense a day before Trump’s second impeachment trial is set to begin.
Rep. Jamie Raskin asked for Trump’s testimony on the events that led to the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol.
Constitutional structure, founding-era understanding and later precedents all reinforce the imperative of employing impeachment to protect constitutional government—even if the president’s term has already ended.
The former president’s lawyers push back on the House managers’ claim that Trump incited the Jan. 6 insurrection at the capitol and argued that the Senate has no authority to try a former president.