David Schoen provided the most Jewish moment of the second impeachment trial of former President Donald J. Trump, though at the time he was too engrossed in his task at hand to recognize or appreciate its impact.
The attorney from Atlanta was telling a jury comprised of 100 senators that the House had denied Trump due process in a “rushed” impeachment, that Trump’s remarks to a Jan. 6 rally constituted speech protected under the First Amendment, and that the Constitution did not give the Senate the right to try a president no longer in office.
Former US president Donald Trump’s impeachment lawyer David Schoen covering his hand with his head before drinking water during a Senate hearing in Washington, DC, February 9, 2021. (Screen Capture from CNN live broadcast via JTA)
Several times during his opening statement on Feb. 9, Schoen paused to sip from a water bottle. Each time, Schoen — an Orthodox Jew who was not wearing his kippah — placed a hand on…
