Former President Donald Trump’s lawyers on Monday argued that the House impeachment managers’ article of impeachment against him for allegedly inciting the breach of the Capitol on Jan. 6 is constitutionally flawed, will not result in a conviction, and infringes on his First Amendment rights.
In a 78-page court filing, Trump attorneys David Schoen, Bruce Castor, and Michael T. van der Veen argued that the Senate cannot convict a former president, saying the House’s impeachment last month is problematic because it joined several alleged offenses into a single article of impeachment—rather than several articles.
