The legal plan to stop senators from telling Trump: ‘You’re fired’

The lawyers who pushed and defended the actions that got Donald Trump impeached are now tasked with keeping the president in office. It was the White House counsel’s team that provided the legal justification for the president’s decision to stonewall congressional subpoenas — a move that led to an article of impeachment. And it was Trump’s TV bulldog and ostensible personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, who nudged on the president’s attempts to lean on Ukraine to open politically advantageous investigations — a pressure campaign that led to another article of impeachment. Now, they all have a role to play as they plot their strategy to get Trump acquitted in his upcoming impeachment trial — both...