The Senate trial of former President Donald Trump is set to begin next week.
Trump announced a new impeachment legal defense team on Sunday after he separated from five of his impeachment lawyers.
He will now be represented by attorneys David Schoen and Bruce L. Castor, Jr. His former team consisted of South Carolina lawyers Butch Bowers and Deborah Barbier and former federal prosecutors Greg Harris, Johnny Gasser and Josh Howard, who left in Saturday.
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- Republicans will argue that the trial is unconstitutional because Trump is no longer in office.
- 45 of the 50 Republicans in the Senate voted earlier this month to reject the trial on a point of order presented by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky.
During his first impeachment trial, Trump’s high-profile team of lawyers included Alan Dershowitz, one of the country’s best-known criminal defense lawyers.
The former president faces charges of inciting the US Capitol insurrection on January 6. His trial begins the week of February 8.
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