'Please do not touch me': U.S. Senate on security alert for Trump impeachment trial


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  • Wednesday, 22 Jan 2020

President Donald Trump's personal attorney Jay Sekulow is searched with a magnetometer by U.S. Capitol Police as he arrives with his son Jordan Sekulow and other fellow members of the Trump legal team ahead of the start of President Trump's Senate impeachment trial in Washington, U.S., January 21, 2020. REUTERS/Tom Brenner

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump under way, U.S. senators have polished their talking points about upholding the Constitution. They also have another phrase at the ready: "Please do not touch me."

Senate impeachment trials are rare and historic - the one unfolding now is only the third in the nation's history - and with them come security jitters in and around the Capitol building.

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