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Scholar says Trump's lawyers misrepresented his research in preparing impeachment defense

Former US President Donald Trump

A legal scholar cited by Donald Trump’s lawyers in arguing that it is unconstitutional to have an impeachment trial for a former president said Trump’s defense team misrepresented his work “quite badly.”

Michigan State University law professor Brian Kalt told Reuters in an email that his research was “definitely not” accurately described in a 78-page document filed by Trump’s lawyers on Monday, the day before his second impeachment trial begins.

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