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9 Feb, 6 tweets, 3 min read
LIVE UPDATES: Trump's impeachment trial kicks off in the Senate today, beginning with debate over the constitutionality of the House prosecuting a president who has already left office.

Follow along for the latest updates: axios.com/trump-impeachm…
The Senate updated its organizing resolution to convene every day until a verdict is rendered, after a Trump lawyer withdrew a request to break for the Jewish Sabbath.

Senators will vote on the framework for the trial shortly after convening at 1 p.m.
axios.com/trump-impeachm…
Lead impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin played a montage of Trump speaking at the Jan. 6 "Stop the Steal" rally, followed by footage of the violent mobs ransacking the Capitol.

Some rioters were heard chanting, "We are listening to Trump, your boss!"
axios.com/trump-impeachm…
Raskin cited some of the most prominent conservative legal scholars — including a former 10th Circuit judge and Federalist Society co-founder Steven Calebresi — who've said it is constitutional to impeach and try an official after they’ve left office. axios.com/trump-impeachm…
House impeachment manager Joe Neguse: "Presidents can’t inflame insurrection in their final weeks and then walk away like nothing happened. And yet that is the rule that President Trump asks you to adopt." axios.com/trump-impeachm…
Trump's lead counsel Bruce Castor opened his arguments at 3 p.m. with praise for lead impeachment manager Jamie Raskin's "outstanding presentation," adding that no member of the Trump team will voice anything but condemnation of the rioters on Jan. 6.
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11 Feb
LIVE UPDATES: Impeachment, day 3 —

Impeachment managers will wrap up their case against Trump by driving home the evidence they believe shows he committed the impeachable offense of “incitement of insurrection.”

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Rep. Raskin opened by stating that the evidence his team presents will demonstrate Trump was "no innocent bystander" and that he "assembled, inflamed and incited his followers" on his way to the "greatest betrayal of the presidential oath" in US history.
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