https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2021/02/09/schiffs-defense-of-impeachment-comes-frombritish-history-n2584440
Schiff's Defense of Impeachment Comes From....British History
Posted on AllSides February 9th, 2021
From The Right
Lawyers for former President Trump will challenge the constitutionality of impeaching a private citizen in the trial that is set to begin Tuesday.
“The Senate must summarily reject this brazen political act,” his attorneys wrote in a legal brief, calling the single impeachment article “unconstitutional for a variety of reasons, any of which alone would be grounds for immediate dismissal.”
But according to Rep. Adam Schiff, there is precedent for late impeachment. It’s just in…British history.
In a thread on Twitter, the former lead impeachment manager attempted to make his case.
The Washington Examiner’s Byron York said the thread would be better if Schiff had an example from American history.
Senate President Pro Tempore Patrick Leahy will preside over the impeachment trial—another indication that Trump will not get a fair trial, his defense team argued.
"Can you imagine any American citizen considering it to be a trial in which the judge and jury has already announced publicly that the defendant must be convicted in this case?" Trump attorney David Schoen asked earlier this month. "And in fact, Senator Leahy called on, demanded that Senator McConnell vote for a conviction also ... how can we possibly have a fair trial? Chuck Schumer, Senator Schumer promised a fair and full trial. You can't, when you know that the jurors and the judge are biased going in."
