The House s lead impeachment manager, Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., prepares Tuesday for the start of the second Senate impeachment trial of Donald Trump. (Photo: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call/Getty Images)
The historic opening day of the first Senate impeachment trial of a former president was fiery and emotional in some moments.
Democrat House managers and lawyers for former President Donald Trump primarily clashed over the constitutionality of trying a private citizen who was impeached seven days before his term as president expired.
The House impeached Trump on Jan. 13 on a single charge of “incitement to insurrection” for his Jan. 6 speech at a rally near the White House as rioters began to break into the Capitol to try to stop lawmakers’ count of electoral votes for president in a joint session of Congress.
For the first time, senators saw detailed security video of the break-in and heard grim emergency calls from Capitol police pleading for back-up as they were overwhelmed.
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Then-US President Donald Trump arrives on the South Lawn of the White House, in Washington, January 12, 2021, (Gerald Herbert/AP)
House impeachment managers, lead by Congressman Jamie Raskin, Lead Manager, proceed through the Capitol Rotunda from the House side of the U.S. Capitol to the U.S. Senate chamber as the second impeachment trial of former U.S. President Donald Trump begins February 9, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images/AFP)
(L-R) Senator Patty Murray, Senator Debbie Stabenow, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Senator Maria Cantwell and Senator Robert Menendez walk to a news conference on the first day of former President Donald Trump s second impeachment trial at the US Capitol on February 9, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP)
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