Ken Starr and Alan Dershowitz, for starters. The rest are named in the article below-
Breitbart: Former independent counsel Kenneth Starr and Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz have joined President Donald Trump’s impeachment legal team ahead of the Senate’s upcoming trial.
“Professor Dershowitz will present oral arguments at the Senate trial to address the constitutional arguments against impeachment and removal,” a spokesperson for the legal team said in a statement Friday. “While Professor Dershowitz is non-partisan when it comes to the constitution—he opposed the impeachment of President Bill Clinton and voted for Hillary Clinton— he believes the issues at stake go to the heart of our enduring Constitution.”
Dershowitz, one of the country’s most high-profile constitutional lawyers, confirmed the news to CNBC. “The president asked me to do this, and the legal team asked me to do this,” he said.
Starr, a former appeals court judge who headed up the investigation into the Whitewater the Monica Lewinsky scandals, has yet to confirm the news.
Robert Ray, an ex-federal prosecutor and independent counsel who took over for Starr in the Whitewater probe, is also expected to join the president’s legal team, CNN reports.
“You can confirm that I expect an announcement this afternoon,” Ray told CNBC of the report.
White House Counsel Pat Cipollone and Jay Sekulow, President Trump’s personal attorney, will lead the defense team. read more
I want to see democrat heads on a platter.
Upon hearing the news, the demoncraps just collectively shit a brick!
I don’t know how they’ll ever be able to hold their own against the likes of the masterful storyteller Adam Schiff or Jerry “Fat Bastard” Nadler.
So they have a solely partisan impeachment effort and a bi partisan defense team. How is it going to look when this team chews up the dems opening statements like there is no tomorrow and then Romney, Collins, Murkowski etc have to make a tough decision to shelve their intense hatred and vote to acquit less they make fools of themselves. At this rate Sanders and Warren have to be chomping at the bit to get this over so they can hit the campaign trail. Pointless since he isn’t getting removed and I hope they put up their giant Trump photo so we can be reminded who has the economy roaring and has kept his promises!
Dems don’t care about the trial, they know it won’t go their way.
They just need to control the media narrative – except they just handed the reins to the GOP.
Look at I5 this way: it’s going to take a whole lotta cheating this November for the Dems to keep the house. I know cheating is their stock and trade, but this might be a bit more than they can chew.
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JANUARY 17, 2020 AT 12:33 PM
“…and then Romney, Collins, Murkowski etc have to make a tough decision to shelve their intense hatred and vote to acquit less they make fools of themselves…”
…you mean, “make fools of themselves AGAIN”.
…They’re WAY past “GO” om making fools of themselves the FIRST time…
..also, Mitt’s a failed Republican presidential candidate. And hell hath no fury like a Republican presidential candidate scorned. He will not be ABLE to put his hatred aside NOW, it’s too much of who he IS.
…look for a Romney thumbs DOWN on aquittal, al la another failed Republican presidential candidate and traitor, John “Songbird” McCain…
Alan Dershowitz………..
I don’t agree with his politics, but THERE is a MAN I can respect vis-a-vis the Constitution.
Must admit I’m enjoying the thought of liberal heads exploding at Dershowitz helping Trump. 🙂
…poor Dershowitz…the liberals are even LESS forgiving of apostasy than Muslims are, so I see multiple suicides in his future, probably very messy ones, too…
I do not agree with Alan Dershowitz’s politics, but he is a rational, intelligent and well-spoken liberal (classical). Not sure how the current crop of democrats and progressives will respond, but guessing they will try to “cancel” him.
I am thrilled that he is on the team.
I am not so thrilled with the choices of Ray and Starr, as the opposition (MSM) will have a field day with them. Despite that, they are good choices, the arguments almost write themselves.
Dershowitz and Starr versus Schiff and Nadler. That should be like watching a tag team wrestling match between John Cena and the Undertaker versus Pee Wee Herman and Kathy Griffin. Which I would pay to see.
The bottom line is the impeachment is a retrograde maneuver. They are losing every battle with PDJT and are shrieking desperately as they flail around for the magic bullet.
The big prize is the courts and the Supreme Court. Demonrats are well aware they cannot compete with their insane policies and can only impose rule by judicial fiat.
In addition they need the liberal judiciary to protect them from their criminality and corruption. They know the President’s aim is to rebalance the courts and prosecute them and they are panicking.
Just look at Nazi Nans bullet pens that look like sniper rounds. She is telegraphing threats directly now of assassination. How the Secret Service has not hauled her away I have no idea but it’s readily apparent they are down to their final options.
Prepare for civil war, it’s coming in November. They are already prepared to burn down the cities.
The house managers vs. Giuliani, Sekulow, Dershowitz, Starr, and Ray? Sounds like origami cranes vs nuclear bombs
It wouldn’t matter to senate dems and never-trumpers like Mitt and Mike Lee, if Jesus Christ Himself was on the Trump defense team, they will still vote to convict. No matter how compelling the arguments made, it is a politically-driven impeachment fueled by emotion not facts.
I guess they be putting the band back together?
The left has removed any trust in government in general.