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(Reuters) – Donald Trump\u2019s lawyers will make \u201cprocedural objections\u201d a focus during his U.S. Senate impeachment case next week, including challenging the notion the former president can face trial after leaving office, one of his attorneys said.<\/p>

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump looks on at the end of his speech during a rally to contest the certification of the 2020 U.S. presidential election results by the U.S. Congress, in Washington, U.S, January 6, 2021. REUTERS\/Jim Bourg\/File Photo\/File Photo<\/figcaption>

Trump is charged with inciting an assault on the U.S. Capitol in which five people died, including a police officer.<\/p>\n

Attorney Bruce Castor Jr. decried the U.S. Senate proceeding due to begin on Tuesday as \u201cunconstitutional,\u201d telling Reuters by phone late on Thursday: \u201cWe\u2019re trying to win a case on a bunch of procedural objections.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is \u2018Law School 101\u2019 stuff. This isn\u2019t advanced legal treatises in bound volumes that are used in the Supreme Court as references,\u201d Castor said.<\/p>\n

It may well be enough to win the case in the 100-member Senate where Trump\u2019s fellow Republicans appear likely to deny rival Democrats the total 67 votes they need to convict Trump. The Republicans assert they do not have the authority to hold a trial for Trump since he left office on Jan. 20.<\/p>\n

On Jan. 6, Trump exhorted a crowd of supporters to go to the Capitol, told them to \u201cfight like hell,\u201d and repeated his false claims the November election was stolen from him. The ensuing rampage interrupted the congressional certification of President Joe Biden\u2019s election victory and sent lawmakers into hiding.<\/p>\n

A majority of constitutional law experts assert that it is lawful to hold an impeachment trial after a president leaves office. They assert that presidents who commit misconduct late in their terms should not be immune from the very process the U.S. Constitution created to hold them accountable.<\/p>\n

Because the Constitution makes clear that impeachment proceedings can result in disqualification from holding future office, there is a live issue for the Senate to resolve, they say.<\/p>\n

Castor and his co-counsel David Schoen were hired on Sunday after Trump parted ways with his prior defense team due to disagreements over strategy.<\/p>\n

The new team\u2019s first filing, a 14-page response on Tuesday to the article of impeachment passed by the House of Representatives on Jan. 13 misspelled \u201cUnited States\u201d as \u201cUnites States\u201d in its salutation to the U.S. Senate.<\/p>\n

Trump is only the third U.S. president to be impeached and the first to be impeached twice and to face trial after leaving office.<\/p>\n

Castor did not directly respond to assertions made by the nine House Democrats who will prosecute the case that multiple news reports indicated Trump was \u201cdelighted\u201d as he watched the unprecedented violence on television.<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever the president reacts has nothing to do with whether there\u2019s any nexus between what he did and what the breachers did,\u201d Castor said.<\/p>\n

Trump on Thursday rejected a request to testify at his impeachment proceeding. The House members trying the case have yet to say whether they will call witnesses or how long the trial might run.<\/p>\n

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