Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican for South Carolina, told reporters of TheHill what Butch Bowers will be the lead attorney at impeachment of the former president Donald Trump.
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Graham said Trump is still building a legal team, but that Bowers would act as the “anchor”: “I think [Trump] will have a good [equipo legal]”Graham said.” Butch Bowers I think will be kind of an anchor tenant. I’ve known Butch for a long time, solid boy. And I think that, you know, over time, they’ll make the team. “
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The House voted on January 13 to impeach Trump for the second time during his tenure. They accuse him of incite insurrection after a mob of his supporters took over the building of the Capitol of the United States on January 6 in an effort to stop the Electoral College’s vote counting.
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President Nancy Pelosi has yet to send the impeachment article to the Senate. For his part, although Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell directly accused Trump of inciting the January 6 riots, saying to the full Senate that the robbers on the Capitol “were provoked by the president and others powerful, “has proposed delaying the start of the impeachment until February so that Trump has time to prepare a defense.
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Besides Graham, other Republican senators who have recently spoken out against Trump’s impeachment include Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Ron Johnson, and Tommy Tuberville.
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Bowers has represented several high-profile Republicans, including South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster, former South Carolina Governors Nikki Haley and Mark Sanford, and former North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory.
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Bowers experience
- Advisor to the Governor of North Carolina in the HB2 Litigation, 2016
- Advisor to the Governor to the South Carolina Ethics Commission, 2016
- Advisor to the Lieutenant Governor to the South Carolina Ethics Commission, 2015-16
- Advisor to the governor in litigation before the Supreme Court of South Carolina, 2009 and 2013
- Adviser to the North Carolina Governor in Litigation Related to the 2013-16 Voter Identification Legislation
- Advisor to the Governor to the South Carolina House of Representatives Ethics Committee, 2012
- Advisor to the South Carolina State Elections Commission in litigation related to voter identification legislation, 2012
- Governor’s Advisor to the South Carolina House of Representatives Impeachment Committee, 2009
- Special Advisor on Voting Matters, United States Department of Justice, Appointed by President George W. Bush, 2007
- Served as an attorney in Florida for the McCain for President campaign, 2008
- Chairman of the Election Commission of the State of South Carolina 2004-07
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