The U.S. Senate will begin the impeachment trial of Donald Trump next Monday, Feb. 8. Two attorneys, David Schoen and Bruce L. Castor, Jr., will lead the defense legal team. They are expected to focus on how the impeachment trial against the former president is unconstitutional and “politically weaponized.
Trump announced last Sunday (Jan. 31) that Alabama attorney John Scone and former federal prosecutor Bruce L. Castor will represent him in the upcoming impeachment trial in the Senate.
“Scone is already working with the 45th president and other advisors to prepare for the upcoming trial, and both Scone and Casto agree that this impeachment is unconstitutional – a fact that was agreed to by a vote of 45 senators last week.” The press release said.
Scone, an attorney in solo practice with law firms in New York and Montgomery, Alabama, was personally appointed by Trump to lead his legal team for the impeachment defense. The impeachment trial is scheduled to begin Monday, Feb. 8.
“I was flattered that he invited me, and I’m honored to represent him.” Schoen told the AJC.
He told The Washington Post on Sunday that he plans to focus more on “weaponizing the impeachment process” (during his defense) and how impeaching the outgoing president would be unconstitutional.
According to his website, he “focuses primarily on litigating complex civil and criminal cases before trial and appellate courts,” taking on only a few cases a year.
Scone, who has practiced for more than three decades, is chairman of the American Bar Association’s Criminal Justice Subcommittee of the Civil Rights Litigation Committee.
He previously litigated for former Trump aide Roger Stone. In November 2019, he was convicted on all seven counts of obstruction, witness tampering and making false statements to Congress. Stone’s sentence was revoked and commuted, and he was subsequently pardoned.
Scone told the Atlanta Jewish Times last year that the case against Stone was “very unfair and politicized. Stone’s sentence was later revoked and reduced, and he was subsequently pardoned.
Scone also told several media outlets that he believed Jeffrey Epstein, the alleged sex trafficker, died of murder, not suicide. He said he went to see the disgraced financier in prison just days before he died.
“I met him a few days before,” Scone said on behalf of Fox News, “and the reason I say I don’t believe it was suicide is because I had an interaction with him that day. His purpose in asking me to come over that day and in the weeks before was for me to take over his defense.”
Castor, another attorney who will appear in next Monday’s Senate impeachment trial, had run unsuccessfully for Pennsylvania’s attorney general in 2004. He has more than 10 years of experience in civil litigation and served as district attorney for Montgomery County, located outside of Philadelphia, from 2000 to 2008.
“I consider it an honor to represent the 45th president.” In a Jan. 31 statement, he said, “The strength of our Constitution is about to be tested as never before in our history. It is strong and resilient. It is a document written for the ages that will once again triumph over partisanship and always will.”
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