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Dershowitz mounts unconventional defense of Trump as Senate impeachment trial enters new phase

Posted on by Marisa Schultz
President Trump's defense lawyer Alan Dershowitz argued Wednesday that a president can’t be impeached for using the levers of his power to stay in office, because he may believe his reelection is in the national public interest.

Chief Justice Roberts takes on new role in Trump’s Senate impeachment trial: Strict timekeeper

Posted on by Marisa Schultz
Chief Justice John Roberts exerted his unique authority as a timekeeper Wednesday by cutting off long-winded answers from lawyers as President Trump’s impeachment trial heads into the question phase.

Trump scorches Bolton, says ‘fired’ hawk would have started ‘World War Six’

Posted on by Tyler Olson
In a pair of white-hot tweets Wednesday morning, President Trump slammed John Bolton over the recent leak of details from his forthcoming book that complicated the president's ongoing impeachment trial -- and needled his former national security adviser over his notoriously hawkish reputation on foreign policy. 

Lev Parnas’ plan to show up at Trump’s Senate impeachment trial prompts even more confusion

Posted on by Gregg Re
Lev Parnas, the indicted associate of President Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, has been granted permission to attend the Senate impeachment trial on Wednesday -- but there are just a few small problems, Fox News has learned.

Trump, in New Jersey, greeted by fired-up rally crowd amid impeachment fight

Posted on by Gregg Re
President Trump was headlining a jam-packed rally in Wildwood, New Jersey, on Tuesday night, hours after his attorneys wrapped up their opening arguments in his Senate impeachment trial -- and minutes after sources told Fox News that Republicans don't have the votes yet to block additional witnesses who could extend the proceedings.

Feinstein stirs confusion with comments on impeachment vote

Posted on by Sam Dorman
A story in the Los Angeles Times caused an uproar on social media after it characterized comments from Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., to say she is leaning "toward acquitting Trump" -- causing the Democratic senator to fire back that the paper “misunderstood what I said.”

McConnell says GOP doesn’t have votes yet to block impeachment witnesses, as Bolton book disrupts trial script

Posted on by Marisa Schultz
The White House’s plans for a speedy impeachment trial were thrown into doubt Tuesday with Senate Republicans floating competing proposals on how to deal with new explosive revelations from ex-national security adviser John Bolton -- and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell telling Republicans he doesn’t yet have enough votes to block the calling of impeachment witnesses.

Trump rally on Jersey Shore: See the crowds

Posted on by FOX News
President Trump is holding a rally Tuesday in Wildwood in support of New Jersey Rep. Jeff Van Drew, who flipped to the Republican party last month after opposing the House majority's impeachment of the president.

Trump defense team takes on Hunter Biden directly, as Dershowitz offers constitutional defense

Posted on by Gregg Re
Pam Bondi, in a methodical presentation Monday at President Trump's Senate impeachment trial, took the fight directly to Hunter Biden -- underscoring, again and again, how even media outlets with a left-wing "bias" questioned the younger Biden's lucrative service on the board of the Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma Holdings while his father oversaw Ukraine policy as vice president.

Republicans call Bolton leak Kavanaugh ‘2.0,’ as publisher denies coordination

Posted on by Tyler Olson
Republican defenders of President Trump on Monday likened the 11th-hour revelations that John Bolton's forthcoming book alleges a quid pro quo concerning the matter at the heart of impeachment to the bombshell allegations that surfaced near the end of now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation proceedings -- as Bolton and his publishers adamantly denied coordinating with the media on the story.