White House counsel Pat Cipollone is currently expected to serve as President Trump's lead attorney during the Senate impeachment trial with Jay Sekulow also helping out on the defense team, according to a person familiar with the matter.
against the Senate — but she suggested that she could be soon — which is required before the trail could get underway.
Cipollone, who has been White House counsel since October 2018, has helped Trump fight back against the House impeachment inquiry and worked closely with Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., on shaping the process for a Senate trial. Cipollone, 53, has been criticized for his broad interpretation of presidential powers and the White House's resistance to the impeachment process, including by nearly two dozen of his former law school classmates who
blasting his legal arguments for not cooperating with the House impeachment inquiry. They said his argument to Congress"flouts the tradition or rigor and intellectual honesty that we learned together."Hallie Jackson
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