In what could be their last bid to make the case for removing the US leader from office, the House impeachment prosecutors expressed outrage over Trump lawyer Alan Dershowitz’s assertion that a president can do almost anything he wants that he claims is in the public interest. Adam Schiff, the leader of the House impeachment managers, said the claim turned US law on its head and echoed the Watergate case of disgraced president Richard Nixon 45 years ago. “What we have seen in the last couple of days is a descent into constitutional madness,” Schiff told the Senate trial.
