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    Graphic Video, Rambling Defense: Takeaways From Senate Impeachment Day 1

    House impeachment manager Jamie Raskin opened the trial with video of the scenes of pro-Trump rioters breaching the Capitol on Jan. 6. Many senators panned the former president's defense team.
    by Deirdre Walsh Feb 10, 2021 6 minutes
    Bruce Castor, defense attorney for former President Donald Trump (center), departs the U.S. Capitol following the first day of the impeachment trial on Monday.

    The Senate trial of former President Donald Trump began with a jarring and graphic video of the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6. The lead House manager, Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., used the montage to tie Trump's message to his supporters that morning to their violent actions breaching the building and attacking U.S. Capitol police.

    The resolution setting the rules for the trial designated Tuesday for a debate on the question of whether the Senate trial of Trump, whose term in office has expired, is constitutional. The House managers and the defense team eventually each addressed the issue.

    But the most memorable moments of Day 1 of the trial were less about the arguments on that issue, and more about the contrasting styles of the two legal teams and the reactions they elicited from senators sitting as jurors in the second impeachment trial for Trump in roughly a year.

    The Senate voted 56-44, as expected, and to proceed to. He said he was persuaded by the arguments from the managers that the trial met the standard to move forward.

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