inciting insurgency

According to his lawyers

Le Parisien, it is unconstitutional to judge a president who is no longer in office.

Many Republican senators, very uncomfortable at the idea of ​​defending it on the merits, seem to rally to this strategy.

know that impeachment is no longer on the agenda.

But they hope to make Donald Trump ineligible

Le Parisien

a conviction, which is played by a two-thirds majority of the 100 senators, is unlikely.

Le Monde

the return to the foreground of the former president does not arouse any enthusiasm.

After being divided during votes in Congress on the certification of the presidential results, then during the impeachment by the House of Representatives, the Republican Party has little interest in seeing its disagreements rekindled by the trial in the Senate.

For its part, the White House is adapting perfectly to the erasure of Donald Trump, now retired in Florida.

Liberation

the Republicans do not want to dwell on this episode, which arouses and reveals the divisions within their party.

The Democrats, for their part, do not want to waste too much time on a trial that they know is essentially symbolic, and which delays the implementation of Joe Biden's program and the confirmation of members of his cabinet.

At least on this point, the two parties agree.

Liberation

Trump's legal troubles will not stop with his probable acquittal in the Senate.

Having become a simple citizen again, he could be indicted in criminal proceedings for allegations related to his business. 

La Croix

“the priority is elsewhere.

(…) The main drawback of this trial is to distract from the attention and energy required by the current problems of the United States.

The pandemic is raging there more severely than in most countries of the world.

This will further increase the economic and social consequences.

Morally, the country is just as suffering,

La Croix.

He needs appeasement and reconciliation.

Joe Biden has made it a priority to restore the unity of the American nation.

Success, however small, on this path will be more useful than a trial to turn the page on the Trump years

 He defined himself as an 'encyclopedist in the days of the Lumière brothers',

Le Monde.

Screenwriter, playwright and writer Jean-Claude Carrière died on Monday at the age of 89.

(…) A born storyteller, gifted teacher, eclectic passer, Jean-Claude Carrière will have spent his life meeting, exploring, communicating, sharing, giving back what he has received, a modern-day griot, half-enchanting, half-iconoclastic, endowed with an innate sense of clarity, dedicated to 'being able to tell everyone anything'.

Liberation

from Pierre Etaix to Louis Malle, from Philippe de Broca to Günter Grass, from Wajda to Milos Forman, from Jacques Deray to Philippe and Louis Garrel, not to mention Haneke or Philip Kaufmann, the eclecticism of the names of all those with whom he has worked is eloquent and recounts the plurality of his tastes and his lack of dogmatism.

 buried in his native village, in Colombières-sur-Orb in the Hérault

Le Figaro

rediscover his land, his Béziers country to which he had always remained faithful, he whom Luis Buñuel said was 'a small peasant who marvels at everything that happens to him'.