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News Articles: Trump impeachment

House Judiciary Committee Chair Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., leads a hearing on the future of abortion rights following the overturning of Roe v. Wade by the Supreme Court on July 14. The House on Tuesday voted to protect same-sex and interracial marriages, a direct confrontation with the Supreme Court.

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  • Politics

With the midterms in their sights, defending Trump isn't a Republican priority

"The RNC and Republicans on Capitol Hill know they are poised for a great election year and what's the biggest thing that could be a hurdle to that? Donald Trump," says one longtime GOP consultant.

July 20, 2022
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  • Tamara Keith
Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman arrives to testify before the House Intelligence Committee in November 2019 during the impeachment inquiry against former President Donald Trump.

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  • Politics

Alexander Vindman sues Trump allies for alleged intimidation over impeachment hearing

Vindman accuses Donald Trump Jr., Rudy Guiliani and others of conspiring to intimidate and then punish him for testifying in the former president's 2019 impeachment case.

February 02, 2022
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  • Rachel Treisman
Republican Sen. Mitt Romney arrives at the Capitol for the fifth day of the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump on Saturday. Romney was one of the seven GOP senators who voted to convict.

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  • Politics

Trump Impeachment Trial Verdict: How Senators Voted

Democrats did not gain enough Republican support to convict former President Donald Trump of inciting insurrection, but seven GOP senators did break with their own party. See the vote breakdown.

February 16, 2021
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  • Brakkton Booker
Del. Stacey Plaskett, one of the House managers in former President Donald Trump's Senate impeachment trial, defends the decision not to call witnesses. "As all Americans believed at that moment, the evidence was overwhelming," she says.

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  • Politics

Stacey Plaskett: Trump Trial Needed 'More Senators With Spines, Not More Witnesses'

Plaskett, a House manager in former President Trump's Senate trial, defends the decision not to call witnesses. "As all Americans believed at that moment, the evidence was overwhelming," she says.

February 14, 2021
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By:
  • Lulu Garcia-Navarro and
  • Avie Schneider
President Donald Trump's defense attorney David Schoen speaks on the fourth day of former President Donald Trump's second impeachment trial at the U.S. Capitol.

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  • Politics

Trump's Legal Defense Team Concludes Case In Fraction Of Allotted Time

Trump's defense used roughly three of their 16 hours to push back on House impeachment managers' case that Trump should be convicted for inciting the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

February 12, 2021
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  • Brakkton Booker
Michael van der Veen, lawyer for former President Donald Trump, walks to the Senate floor through the Senate Reception room on the fourth day of the Senate Impeachment trial for former President Donald Trump.

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  • Politics

Trump's Legal Team Points To 2017 Attempt To Block Election Certification As Defense

In 2017, several House Democrats stood and objected to the certification of then President-elect Trump's electoral victory. Then-Vice President Biden was presiding.

February 12, 2021
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  • Brakkton Booker
On the third day of the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump, House impeachment managers argued that Trump is singularly to blame for the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection on the U.S. Capitol.

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  • National

House Impeachment Managers Wrap Their Case

Impeachment managers argued that not taking action against former President Donald Trump jeopardizes the country's standing in the eyes of the global community.

February 11, 2021
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  • Barbara Sprunt
Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., speaks on the third day of former President Donald Trump's second impeachment trial. House impeachment managers argue that Trump both incited the Jan. 6. insurrection and showed no remorse after the attack.

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  • Politics

House Democrats Use Trump's Own Words To Argue He Showed No Remorse After Attack

Impeachment managers said Trump's lack of contrition indicates he remains a threat to democracy and must be disqualified from holding office.

February 11, 2021
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  • Brakkton Booker
Del. Stacey Plaskett, D-U.S. Virgin Islands, speaks Wednesday during former President Donald Trump's second impeachment trial. She argued that Trump was "singularly responsible" for the Jan. 6 attack at the U.S. Capitol and that he should be convicted and barred from holding public office again.

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  • Politics

Stacey Plaskett Is 1st Nonvoting House Delegate To Argue An Impeachment Trial

She touched on her unlikely journey from projects in Brooklyn, N.Y., to St. Croix, the U.S. Virgin Islands, "and now as an adult woman representing an island territory speaking to the U.S. Senate."

February 10, 2021
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  • Brakkton Booker
Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., the lead House impeachment manager, speaks in the Senate on Wednesday. He argued that former President Donald Trump incited the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol and that his words are not protected by the First Amendment.

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  • National

House Impeachment Managers Say Trump's 'Incitement' Is Not Protected Speech

Rep. Jamie Raskin called former President Donald Trump the "inciter in chief" and rejected the defense's claim that his calls to overturn the election constitute free speech under the First Amendment.

February 10, 2021
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  • Brakkton Booker
Bruce Castor, a defense lawyer for former President Donald Trump speaks on the first day of Trump's second impeachment trial. Trump's legal team is arguing that the impeachment is politically motivated and must not move forward.

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  • Politics

Trump Impeached Because Democrats Don't Want To Face Him In 2024, Legal Team Argues

Former President Donald Trump's legal team also argued that the second impeachment trial should not move forward because he is no longer in office.

February 09, 2021
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  • Brakkton Booker
Lead House impeachment manager Jamie Raskin, D-Md., speaks on the first day of former President Donald Trump's second impeachment trial at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday.

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  • Politics

Meet The House Managers Laying Out The Case To Impeach Donald Trump

The nine House Democrats are expected to rely on lawmakers' personal experiences during the riots to build the case against Trump. The team is led by Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland.

February 09, 2021
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  • Brakkton Booker
Butch Bowers speaks during a news conference at the State House in Columbia, S.C., on Sept. 10, 2009. It's up to the South Carolina elections and ethics lawyer to defend former President Donald Trump at the U.S. Senate impeachment trial.

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  • National

Who Are The Lawyers Defending Trump In His 2nd Impeachment Trial?

Among the fairly unknown team from South Carolina is Butch Bowers, who represents public officials in ethics cases. A first for him, he has to defend the former president in a trial unlike any other.

January 31, 2021
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  • Victoria Hansen
President Trump arrives on the South Lawn of the White House last month.

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  • Analysis

With 12 Days Left, Removing Trump From Office Is Unlikely, If Not Impossible

The two options for removing a president are the 25th Amendment and impeachment. With the 25th unlikely to be invoked, Democrats appear to be moving toward another Trump impeachment.

January 08, 2021
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  • Domenico Montanaro
Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman arrives on Capitol Hill in October as part of the impeachment inquiry. Controversy has grown over an abnormal stall in Vindman's promotion to the rank of full colonel.

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  • National Security

Vindman, Key Impeachment Witness, Retires Over 'Bullying, Intimidation' By Trump

Vindman is retiring "after it has been made clear that his future within the institution he has dutifully served will forever be limited," his lawyer said Wednesday.

July 08, 2020
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  • Laurel Wamsley

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