The Democrats unconstitutional impeachment effort

Daily Mail:
President Donald Trump's legal team has issued a furious response to the articles of impeachment, accusing House Democrats of engaging in a 'dangerous attack' on the rights of voters.

'This is a brazen and unlawful attempt to overturn the results of the 2016 election and interfere with the 2020 election now just months away,' reads the filing sent Saturday in response to the Senate's impeachment trial summons.

'The highly partisan and reckless obsession with impeaching the President began the day he was inaugurated and continues to this day,' the response continues.

It is the opening salvo in Trump's legal defense, after high profile attorneys Alan Dershowitz and Ken Starr signed on to argue on his behalf in the Senate impeachment trial.

Saturday's six-page response is signed by two other members of Trump's legal team, Jay Sekulow and Pat Cipollone.

The strongly-worded letter says that the two articles of impeachment, which allege abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, 'must be rejected.'

It lays out for the first time in detail a preview of Trump's legal strategy going into the trial, arguing not only that he is actually innocent, but that the charges themselves have been illegally brought by House Democrats.

Trump's attorneys argue that the articles of impeachment are unconstitutional in and of themselves and invalid because they don't allege a crime.

'The Articles of Impeachment violate the Constitution,' the letter reads.

'In order to preserve out constitutional structure of government, to reject the poisonous partisanship that the Framers warned against, to ensure one-party political impeachment vendettas do not become the "new normal," and to vindicate the will of the American people, the Senate must reject both Articles of Impeachment,' it continues.

'In the end, this entire process is nothing more than a dangerous attack on the American people themselves and their fundamental right to vote,' the letter concludes.
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The whole effort by the Democrats has been in bad faith.  They have been looking for an excuse to overturn the election and resorted to bogus claims against the President.

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