WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Donald Trump on Sunday named two lawyers to his impeachment defense team, one day after it was revealed that the former president had parted\u2026<\/b>
\nWASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Donald Trump on Sunday named two lawyers to his impeachment defense team, one day after it was revealed that the former president had parted ways with an earlier set of attorneys. The two lawyers representing him will be David Schoen, an Alabama attorney, and Bruce Castor, a former prosecutor in Pennsylvania. Trump\u2019s team revealed Saturday that several South Carolina lawyers who were set to represent him at the trial starting next week were no longer participating. 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\u2019s electoral victory. Republicans and Trump aides have made clear that they intend to make a simple argument in the trial: Trump\u2019s trial is unconstitutional because he is no longer in office. Legal scholars say there is no bar to an impeachment trial despite Trump having left the White House. \u201cThe Democrats\u2019 efforts to impeach a president who has already left office is totally unconstitutional and so bad for our country,\u201d Trump adviser Jason Miller has said. Copyright \u00a9 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, written or redistributed.<\/p>\n