A last-minute change of plans
Bruce Castor says that after seeing the response to Jamie Raskin’s opening statement he had no choice but to make a last-minute change. Castor explained to Fox News that he knew David Schoen, another attorney on the defense team, would not deviate from their brief.
“He was not going to deviate,” Castor explained. “I am faced with a chamber that is emotionally charged and our response was about to be a scholarly treatise on a narrow portion of law.”
Castor said he “did not think that was a good idea.”
“I thought the likelihood of the senators paying attention to our jurisdiction argument would go up if I could lower the temperature in the chamber before David spoke,” Castor explained. “And that is why I changed the strategy, and essentially, gave a portion of what was going to be my opening statement in the trial later in the case.”
