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The American Center for Law and Justice said that the impeachment trial against former President Donald Trump is unconstitutional.
The group submitted to the Senate a 45-page legal analysis challenging the article of impeachment that according to them violates the U.S. Constitution.
The memorandum was forwarded a day before the trial is scheduled to start.
“If the text, ‘the President of the United States,’ in the constitutional provision requiring the Chief Justice to preside can refer only to the sitting president, and not to former presidents, then the textual identification of ‘[t]he President’ contained in Article II, Section 4, which makes the President amenable to impeachment in the first place, also excludes anyone other than the sitting President,” the group argues.
ACLJ also pointed out that Chief Justice John Roberts declined to preside.
“While not dispositive, the fact that, according to the Senate Democratic Leader, the Chief Justice of the United States was invited to preside over this trial and yet declined to do so, is quite telling,” ACLJ argues.
The American Center for Law and Justice is a group led by Trump’s longtime attorney Jay Sekulow who previously represented him during his first impeachment. He is not representing Trump in the second impeachment trial.
Trump’s legal team said that their client was deprived of due process which also violated the Constitution, The Epoch Times reported.
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