Calls to delay Donald Trump impeachment trial as former president appoints defense lawyer Bowers
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One of the reasons Mitch McConnell has given for trying to delay the trial of former president Donald Trump is to give him more time to prepare. Reuters this morning are reporting that Trump has at least taken the step of beginning to put together his legal defense team.
Trump has hired South Carolina-based lawyer Butch Bowers to represent him at the Senate trial. While relatively unknown on the national stage, Bowers has represented former Republican governors in South Carolina and served in the US Justice Department under Republican former President George W. Bush.
Yesterday Republican Mitch McConnell proposed delaying Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, and Democrat House speaker Nancy Pelosi decline to confirm when the article of impeachment will be sent from the House to the Senate. However, whenever it happens, Tom McCarthy reports that the verdict will rest in the hands of Republican Senators:
A two-thirds majority of voting senators – 67 if all 100 members vote – is still required to convict the president, and the Democratic caucus will number only 50 senators. Thus they would need 17 Republicans to join them to convict Trump.
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