Northwest Louisiana Congressman Mike Johnson is named to President Trump’s impeachment defense team in the ongoing Senate removal trial. The Senate will vote on trial rules today, and while it looks like this could be a very brief trial in the Upper Chamber, but Johnson says the prosecution will have all the time it needs to make a case.
Afterward, the President’s team will be allowed to respond.
Democrats and Republicans alike have raised concerns that few members of the Senate will be able to be an impartial juror in the case as the issue has broken sharply along partisan lines. Senator Bill Cassidy says he’ll be impartial, but it looks to be a flimsy case so far…
The trial is now underway.
33 dogs are found in horrid conditions in and around the Ascension Parish home of 50-year-old Thomas West, who is now facing animal cruelty charges. Kevin Barnhart has the story.