Breaking News: President Trump's legal team will dismiss impeachment as a "rigged process" in its formal brief, urging the Senate to quickly acquit him at trial.

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In a lengthy brief to be submitted to the Senate the day before his trial begins in earnest, the president’s lawyers plan to make the most sustained argument the White House has advanced since the House opened its impeachment inquiry last fall, contending that the two articles of impeachment approved largely along party lines were constitutionally flawed and set a dangerous precedent. 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