Trump legal team asks Senate for speedy acquittal in impeachment trial
(WorldNews Politics)

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump´s legal team called on the Senate on Monday to `swiftly reject` the impeachment charges and acquit him, arguing that Democrats would `permanently weaken the presidency` if they succeeded in removing him from office over what the team characterized as policy and political differences. In a 110-page brief submitted to the Senate the day before Trump´s trial begins in earnest, the president´s lawyers advanced their first sustained legal argument since the House opened its inquiry in the fall, contending that the two charges approved largely along party lines were constitutionally flawed and set a dangerous precedent. Trump´s lawyers dismissed the...