WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump's lawyers submitted a trial brief Monday calling his impeachment by the House "a dangerous perversion" of the US constitution and demanding his immediate acquittal by the Senate. But the weeks to come will be anything but normal, as the Senate opens only the third presidential impeachment trial in US history. 'A rigged process'In the president's brief, his 12-man legal team contested the very idea of his impeachment. One source working with the president's legal team told AFP the impeachment process was "illegitimate from the start," adding, "The president did nothing wrong." That makes for a significantly quicker pace than in Bill Clinton's impeachment trial in 1999.

Source: Philippine Star January 21, 2020 00:00 UTC