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On February 8, Trump’s biggest problem was not just that a trial was coming. It was that the country was about to spend a week reading the same record of January 6 back to him, sentence by sentence, while his lawyers argued that leaving office should erase the whole thing. That’s not a strategy. That’s a confession of how bad the underlying case looks.
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On February 8, 2021, Senate leaders announced a bipartisan agreement on how Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial would proceed. The Senate’s formal jurisdiction vote came the next day.
As the Senate prepared to open Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial on February 9, his legal team argued the chamber lacked jurisdiction because he was already out of office. The opening day was set for a vote on whether the Senate could hear the case before moving to the merits.