Today is the day that citizen Trump's lawyers present their arguments for acquittal.

They will and should argue that the Senate has no jurisdiction.

Even though the Senate rejected that, they should make that argument again because some

senators will continue to vote for acquittal on that ground.

They will also argue that the First Amendment precludes conviction and they should make that

argument even in the face of 144 scholars telling them it would be unethical to do so.

We'll hear why those arguments will prevail and citizen Trump will be acquitted on the

der show.

Lead House manager Jamie Raskin, my former student at a very, very bright lawyer, made a very

clever argument yesterday.

He kind of snuck it into his general closing and here's what his arguments said.

He said, look senators, there was already a resolution of the issue of whether or not

the Senate has jurisdiction.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, we know that the Constitution says the president shall be removed upon

impeachment.

And that the other side has argued that since Trump is not the president, he's the former

president and can't be removed, the Senate has no jurisdiction to try him.

Raskin said, the Senate has already rejected that argument by a vote of 56 to 44, therefore

it is improper for you senators to consider that issue in deciding whether to vote to convict

or acquit.

And he made an interesting analogy to a criminal case or even a civil case when you make

a motion to dismiss, it could be granted or denied.

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