Laurence Tribe called the Senate majority leader's planned defense of Donald Trump "disgusting."
Harvard constitutional law professor Laurence Tribe explained Friday why he believes Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s plan to coordinate with President Donald Trump’s defense team in a Senate impeachment trial may backfire.
McConnell told Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Thursday that there was “no chance” that Trump would be removed from office over the Ukraine scandal and vowed “total coordination” with the White House during proceedings. Tribe told MSNBC’s Ari Melber the next day on “The Beat” that it was “disgusting” that McConnell looked like he “is going to conduct this trial as though he’s a member of the defense team.”
“You know, it’s an ancient principle — centuries-old, actually over a millennium old — that you can’t be a judge on your own case, and effectively, to allow Donald Trump to call the shots violates that principle,” said the scholar, who has been advising top House Democrats on the impeachment process.
Sixty-seven votes are required to convict a president. Trump’s 2020 GOP challenger, former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld, claimed this week that up to six Republican senators now privately support removing Trump from office.Adam Schiff Rips Donald Trump's Republicans Defenders: Their Most Shameful HourAlso on HuffPostThis article originally appeared on HuffPost.
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