President Donald Trump will be represented by former Bill Clinton special prosecutors Kenneth Starr and Robert Ray, plus retired Harvard constitutional law professor Alan Dershowitz, at his Senate impeachment trial.
The three well-known attorneys will have specific speaking roles during the upcoming trial and serve as clean-up hitters behind White House counsel Pat Cipollone and Jay Sekulow, Trump’s longtime personal attorney, Sekulow said.
The three well-known attorneys will have specific speaking roles during the upcoming trial and serve as clean-up hitters behind White House counsel Pat Cipollone and Jay Sekulow, Trump’s longtime personal attorney, Sekulow said.
Dershowitz has been an outspoken defender of Trump on conservative cable television throughout his presidency. Following last month’s House impeachment votes, he questioned the Democratic strategy of holding back transmitting the articles to the Senate and suggested Trump could take the controversy to the Supreme Court to have the charges tossed out on constitutional grounds.
Starr and Ray have also been prominent Trump defenders dating back to former special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe, though they also on occasion in media interviews have suggested the president deserved the legal scrutiny he was getting.
