WASHINGTON, 1 February, 2021 (TON): On Sunday, Donald Trump announced that a former county prosecutor and a criminal defense lawyer with a civil rights background will lead his impeachment defense team.

The two representing Trump will be defense lawyer David Schoen, a frequent television legal commentator, and Bruce Castor, a former district attorney in Pennsylvania who was criticized for his decision to not charge actor Bill Cosby in a sex crimes case.

Both attorneys stated that they were honored to take the job.

“The strength of our Constitution is about to be tested like never before in our history. It is strong and resilient. A document written for the ages, and it will triumph over partisanship yet again, and always,” said Castor, who served as district attorney for Montgomery County, from 2000 to 2008.

The announcement intended to promote a sense of stability as Trump’s impeachment trial nears.
Several South Carolina lawyers had been set to represent him at the trial, which starts the week of 8 February, 2021.

Trump, the first president in American history to be impeached twice, is set to stand trial in the Senate on a charge that he incited his supporters to storm Congress on Jan. 6 as lawmakers met to certify Joe Biden’s electoral victory.

The Republicans and Trump aides said clearly that Trump’s trial is unconstitutional because he is no longer in office.

“The Democrats’ efforts to impeach a president who has already left office is totally unconstitutional and so bad for our country,” Trump adviser Jason Miller has said.
Many legal scholars say there is no bar to an impeachment trial despite Trump having left the White House.

The impeachment case stands vague as there exists no evidence that the former President; Donald Trump has not violated law, rule, and regulation or committed anything against the ordinance lately.