New Day! New Lawyers!

[SteveG]

if these guys walk...Rudy's ready!


Former President Donald Trump's office announced that David Schoen and Bruce L. Castor, Jr. will now head the legal team for his second impeachment trial, a day after CNN first reported that five members of his defense left and his team effectively collapsed.

Trump has struggled to find lawyers willing to take his case as he refuses to budge from his false claims. Trump's advisers have been talking to him about his legal strategy and he keeps bringing up election fraud for his defense, while they have repeatedly tried to steer him away from that, according to a source familiar with those discussions.

It's unclear if Schoen and Castor will go along with what Trump wants.

"Schoen has already been working with the 45th President and other advisors to prepare for the upcoming trial, and both Schoen and Castor agree that this impeachment is unconstitutional - a fact 45 Senators voted in agreement with last week," the release said.
"It is an honor to represent the 45th President, Donald J. Trump, and the United States Constitution," Schoen said in a statement.

Castor added, "I consider it a privilege to represent the 45th President. The strength of our Constitution is about to be tested like never before in our history. It is strong and resilient. A document written for the ages, and it will triumph over partisanship yet again, and always."

Schoen "focuses primarily on the litigation of complex civil and criminal cases before trial and appellate courts," according to his website. He serves as chair of the American Bar Association's Criminal Justice Subcommittee of the Civil Rights Litigation Committee.

[GGD]

There's always Saul...

[hal]

It just occurred to me that Trump must want to testify himself or defend himself. The ratings would be amazing.

[vision63]

GGD wrote:
There's always Saul...

Saul would be paid or else.

[Lux Interior]

hal wrote:
It just occurred to me that Trump must want to testify himself or defend himself. The ratings would be amazing.

Plus, if he's convicted, he can claim incompetent legal counsel.

[steve...]

hal wrote:
It just occurred to me that Trump must want to testify himself or defend himself. The ratings would be amazing.

What's the penalty for lying to congress again? Trumpo can't open his mouth without telling a lie.

Hope the Democrat controlled Senate can enforce the penalties.

[RgrF]

hal wrote:
It just occurred to me that Trump must want to testify himself or defend himself. The ratings would be amazing.

He's not gonna' give sworn testimony and anything else is just giving him an international platform to replace what he lost at Twitter.

[Carnos Jax]

Good point Rog

[AllGold]

I hope Trump is successful at getting his legal team to base his defense on election fraud.

[Speedy]

AllGold wrote:
I hope Trump is successful at getting his legal team to base his defense on election fraud.

YES ^

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/...story.html

The implosion of former president Donald Trump’s legal team comes as Trump remains fixated on arguing at his second impeachment trial that the 2020 election was stolen from him, a defense that advisers warn is ill-conceived and Republican strategists fear will fuel the growing divide in the GOP.

South Carolina lawyer Karl S. “Butch” Bowers Jr. and four other attorneys who recently signed on to represent the former president abruptly parted ways with him this weekend, days before his Feb. 9 Senate trial for his role in inciting the attack on the U.S. Capitol. On Sunday evening, Trump’s office announced two new lawyers were taking over his defense.

Two people familiar with the discussions preceding the departure of the original legal team said that Trump wanted them to make the case during the trial that he actually won the election. To do so would require citing his false claims of election fraud — even as his allies and attorneys have said that he should instead focus on arguing that impeaching a president who has already left office is unconstitutional.

That approach has already been embraced by many Republican senators, many of whom cited it when they cast a test vote against impeachment last week.

Nearly all GOP senators vote against impeachment trial for Trump, signaling likely acquittal

Trump’s lawyers had initially planned to center their strategy on the question of whether the proceedings were constitutional and on the definition of incitement, according to one of the people, who, like others interviewed for this report, spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the internal conversations.

But the former president repeatedly said he wanted to litigate the voter fraud allegations and the 2020 race — and was seeking a more public defense of his actions. Bowers told Trump he couldn’t mount the defense that Trump wanted, the person said.

“It truly was mutual,” the person said. “The president wanted a different defense. The president wanted a different approach and a different team.”

Trump spokesman Jason Miller also said Sunday that the split with his lawyers was mutual but rejected the notion that the former president wants to focus on election fraud in the Senate trial, calling that account “fake news.”

“The only guidance offered has been to focus on the unconstitutional nature of the impeachment to which 45 senators have already voted in agreement,” Miller wrote in a text message.

Bowers and the other lawyers who quit Trump’s defense team did not respond to requests for comment. CNN first reported that Trump wanted his attorneys to center his defense on his claims of election fraud.

On Sunday evening, Trump’s office announced in a statement that Atlanta-based trial attorney David Schoen and Bruce L. Castor Jr., a former district attorney in Montgomery County, Pa., would lead his defense team. The two lawyers will bring “national profiles and significant trial experience in high-profile cases to the effort,” the statement said.