Trump team calls impeachment 'dangerous perversion of the Constitution' in lengthy filing

President Trump’s legal team called the House’s impeachment case a “dangerous perversion of the Constitution” in a brief filed Monday morning ahead of this week’s arguments to be held on the Senate floor. The 110-page filing claimed that the two articles of impeachment – abuse of power and obstruction of Congress – do not amount to impeachable offenses, and that the Democrat-led House inquiry was not a quest for the truth.-- More...