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Members of former President Donald Trump's defense team Bruce Castor, left, and Michael van der Veen, center, arrive at the Capitol as freezing rain falls before the start of the impeachment trial in the Senate on Saturday.

Senate votes to open Trump trial to allow witness depositions

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted February 13, 2021 at 10:54am, Updated at 11:24am
Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, the Republican senator who has seemed most persuaded by the House managers' case, walks into the Senate Reception room on the second to last day of the Senate Impeachment trial for former President Donald Trump on Friday.

New revelation could derail plan for Senate to acquit Trump Saturday

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted February 13, 2021 at 4:08am, Updated at 8:20am
Capitol Police officers enter the Capitol Thursday.

Trump defense to cite ‘middle ground’ between election ‘fight’ and inciting insurrection

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted February 12, 2021 at 8:00am
Speaker Nancy Pelosi conducts her weekly news conference in the Capitol Visitor Center on Feb. 11, 2021.

‘Quite a week,’ Pelosi says, previewing more to come

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted February 11, 2021 at 2:10pm
Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., speaks to the media on Wednesday during a break in the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump, on charges of inciting the deadly attack on the Capitol.

House managers to show insurrection’s ‘terrible toll’ in appeal to public

By Lindsey McPherson and Bridget Bowman
Posted February 11, 2021 at 8:00am

Capitol Ink | Peanut gallery

By R.J. Matson
Posted February 11, 2021 at 7:00am
Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., talks with reporters as he leaves the Capitol after the first day of former President Donald Trump's second impeachment trial. Trump's acquittal is all but certain because 17 Republicans would need to join all 50 Democrats to convict him of the charge, "incitement of insurrection," but Cassidy's vote appears to be one in play.

House impeachment managers mount long-shot bid for Trump conviction

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted February 10, 2021 at 8:00am

Capitol Ink | American graffiti

By R.J. Matson
Posted February 10, 2021 at 7:00am
Lead impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., prepares for the start of the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump on Tuesday, February 9, 2021. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Raskin gives emotional speech at Trump’s second impeachment trial

By Jinitzail Hernández
Posted February 9, 2021 at 5:38pm
Lead impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., right, leads the impeachment managers through the Capitol Rotunda during their walkthrough on Monday, Feb. 8, 2021, in advance of the start of the impeachment trial in the Senate the following day.

First day of second Trump impeachment trial will decide constitutionality of trying a former president

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted February 9, 2021 at 8:00am