Today's D Brief: Impeachment trial begins; 2 carriers in South China Sea; Water-supply hack; Enemy drones; And a bit more.
By Ben Watson
February 9, 2021
The D Brief
POTUS45’s unprecedented second impeachment trial begins today. It all begins at 1 p.m. ET with four hours of argument in the Senate on the constitutionality of impeaching a former president. Actual arguments for and against impeachment — the former president faces a single charge of “incitement of insurrection†— won’t begin until noon on Wednesday, with as many as 16 hours of arguments from the prosecution and the defendant’s legal teams, collectively taking up no more than eight hours per day.
There are no witnesses expected, the Associated Press previews, “in part because the senators sworn as jurors, forced to flee for safety, will be presented with graphic videos recorded that day.â€
That means the proceedings could run into the weekend, and possibly next week. “That timeline would make it the fastest impeachment trial for a president in history,†the New York Times reports.
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