Dershowitz and Starr for the defense - they just named WH defense team:

[Dennis Donovan]

Link to tweet

Maggie Haberman ✔ @maggieNYT

NEWS - with Cipollone and Sekulow as lead lawyers, Trump impeachment team to include Ken Starr and Robert Ray, former independent counsel lawyers, per person familiar with the plan.

Maggie Haberman ✔ @maggieNYT

Team will also include Dershowitz. Statement from a team spokesman:
“Professor Dershowitz will present oral arguments at the Senate trial to address the constitutional arguments against impeachment and removal.” 1/

9:43 AM - Jan 17, 2020

I hope they put armed guards around any female Senate pages...

[Yavin4]

1. OJ had a much better legal team

Which says volumes.

[PJMcK]

18. One point to remember, tough

OJ was acquitted.

[Yavin4]

21. Right. Because he had better lawyers. n/t

[tinrobot]

27. This trial already has a rigged jury

Lawyers don't matter.

[bluedye33139]

2. He'll take time out of his work on lowering the age of consent

One of his projects has been lowering the age of consent so that the behavior of Jeffrey Epstein and Alan Dershowitz can go on without legal difficulty.

[panader0]

3. And Ken Starr.....

[onetexan]

32. Holy crap Starr is inserting himself into this quagmire as well?

[C_U_L8R]

4. I got the giggles

Dersh is so washed up, sold out and complicit. There couldn't be anyone worse, it's perfect!

[dem4decades]

5. Will Dershowitz be wearing pants or be just in his underwear?

[CaptYossarian]

12. We had the same idea. Hopefully, he'll wear a tie at Trump-length.

[tetedur]

20. I'm sure he will keep his underwear on.

It might be worn on his head, but his underwear will be on.

[TheBlackAdder]

29. Damn! That was my first thought too!

[CaptYossarian]

6. As he does with everything else, Dershowitz will be talking through his underwear.

(Translation: Out of his ass.)

Since Trump only knows lawyers who are on TV, where's Geraldo?

[pwb]

7. Epstiens friend ?

Who are they going to murder now?

[CaptYossarian]

14. That blindfolded lady with the scales of justice.

There's been a price on her head since 2016.

[WhiteTara]

22. since 2000

[CaptYossarian]

30. I remember that day. It's when Dubya learned we had a third branch of government.

And in true, spoiled rich guy fashion, he used it to his advantage.

[WhiteTara]

33. I've worn mourning weeds ever since.

[CaptYossarian]

36. Mourning the 3000 dead in one day because of a weak, stupid, ineffective president who

didn't listen to Condi Rice 6 weeks earlier--

Or mourning all the dead/mangled/suicidal soldiers from the fake weapons of mass distraction in a country that had nothing to do with the attacks--

Or mourning the financial catastrophe from the Bush recession that also damn-near destroyed America?

[WhiteTara]

39. Mourning the death of democracy

that made all those things possible and real.

[CaptYossarian]

40. Since he won 5 - 4, was it Courtocracy?

[WhiteTara]

41. I have always considered it a coup.

[MagickMuffin]

44. Yep, and remember when Ashcroft covered the Spirit of Justice?

In 2002, under John Ashcroft, curtains were installed blocking the statue from view during speeches. The curtains were first used on a rental basis during the administration of Dick Thornburgh. Justice officials long insisted that the curtains were put up to improve the room's use as a television backdrop and that Ashcroft had nothing to do with it. Ashcroft's successor, Alberto Gonzales, removed the curtains in June 2005.

On May 7, 2007, National Journal's "Inside Washington" column reported that it was Monica Goodling (remember her: is a former United States government lawyer and Republican[1] political appointee in the George W. Bush administration who is best known for her role in the controversy about the politically motivated firings of several United States Attorneys in 2007) who ordered drapes to be placed over the partially nude Spirit of Justice statue during Ashcroft's tenure as Attorney General. At the time, the department spent $8,000 on blue drapes to hide the two aluminum statues, according to spokesman Shane Hix.

The Spirit of Justice does not wear a blindfold. She needs to see what's up. She knows that not everything is blind justice.

[MontanaMama]

8. I hope Dershowitz

keeps his towel on during oral arguments.

[Boomerproud]

9. The Nightmare Team.

[Watchfoxheadexplodes]

10. I suspect this is to keep idiots like

Gym Jordan and devil Nunes from yapping in public.

But Democrats should oppose this because jerkowitts and flaming star both appear with regularity on the trump network.

[BuffaloJackalope]

11. The best legal minds available - in 1990

[mopinko]

13. good. be an idiot.

many an innocent person is in prison w reps like this.
good.

[Watchfoxheadexplodes]

15. If the lie fits you must aquit

In before memes are made😂

[RandySF]

16. A Democrat getting a blowjob is impeachable but a Republican committing treason is not?

[BuffaloJackalope]

42. Republicans don't commit treason.

Selling America out to a hostile foreign country is just a business deal.

[kentuck]

17. Robert Ray is the Bob Barr of defense attorneys...

He's the fixer.

[DeminPennswoods]

43. I've seen Ray on MSNBC a few times basically, iirc, trashing

Trump. Does Trump know that? If so, maybe someone should tweet him the video.

[Dennis Donovan]

19. From Brad Moss: "Starr, who tried to bring down a president over lying about oral sex..."

Link to tweet

Bradley P. Moss ✔ @BradMossEsq

Ken Starr, who tried to bring down a president over lying about oral sex, is going to defend a conspiracy to commit bribery. Sure, why not.

Maggie Haberman ✔ @maggieNYT

NEWS - with Cipollone and Sekulow as lead lawyers, Trump impeachment team to include Ken Starr and Robert Ray, former independent counsel lawyers, per person familiar with the plan.

9:48 AM - Jan 17, 2020

Nailed it...

[Johonny]

23. So a pedophile and a guy that covered up rape will defend the president's honor.

Should be good.

[demmiblue]

24. I'm also told former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi will be presenting on the Senate floor...

I’m also told former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi will be presenting on the Senate floor as part of POTUS’ defense team along with longtime counsel Jane Raskin per person familiar

Link to tweet

[COLGATE4]

28. IMO Bondi has a lot of experience

on the floor

[demmiblue]

38. This Pam Bondi?

Link to tweet

[stillcool]

25. oh goody...more arrogant..

assholes. That's what the GOP needs more of.

[Dennis Donovan]

26. Elie Honig: Now House Managers can point across the well and say: "There's the same guy..."

Link to tweet

Elie Honig ✔ @eliehonig

Trump has added Ken Starr to his defense team.

Now House Managers can point across the well and say: “There’s the same guy who interviewed @MonicaLewinsky’s ex-boyfriends, WH window washers and Kathleen Willey’s dentist. Now he doesn’t want us to hear from Bolton and Mulvaney.”

10:06 AM - Jan 17, 2020

[PA Democrat]

34. I don't think too many Americans have a favorable view of Starr.

He spent $70 million over 6 years fishing for something.....anything to nail Clinton with. Even after Whitewater turned out to be a big fat zero he kept digging.

[True Blue American]

31. What will Starr do?

Cover up more sex scandals? He was fired from a University for doing just that.

[Dennis Donovan]

37. After manufacturing one around Clinton. Quite the hat trick. n/t

[superpatriotman]

35. Mock Trial

With Judge Reinhold