Speaking shortly after his client's acquittal in the second impeachment trial on Saturday, van der Veen appeared to be almost holding back tears, responding to reports that his Philadelphia-area home was targeted by vandals.

Noting that he would not like to go into detail on the subject, a visibly distraught van der Veen told FoxNews host Griff Jenkins that his home was indeed "attacked."

"To answer your question, my entire family, my business, my law firm are under siege right now. I don't really want to go into that," he said.

Talking to the pool reporters, the Philadelphia-based attorney said that vandals broke windows in his home, and spray-painted "really bad words" everywhere. Philadelphia police confirmed that unknown perpetrators daubed "traitor" at the end of the driveway at his home in Chester County. Police said the home is now being watched by private security, and that they have been "showing a presence" to discourage further attacks.

The attorney, who said that he "was not politically minded," and argued that him partaking in the Trump impeachment trial was merely part of his job as a lawyer, said that he has been bombarded by death threats."I've had nearly 100 death threats," he claimed.

Also on Friday, a group of protesters flocked to his law office in downtown Philadelphia. The crowd chanted "When van der Veen lies, what do you do? Convict. Convict," according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.

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The petition, which asks the British government to commit not to impose the so-called immunity passports on the general public, crossed the threshold on Sunday. Public support grew from 10,000 over 20 days ago and surged since last week, when the petition had almost 37,000 signatures.

Several similarly-themed petitions in the past attracted hundreds of thousands of supporters, indicating an enduring frustration that sections of British society have about the idea. Their concern is that vaccination status may affect not only their ability to travel to other countries -by all accounts a highly likely scenario- but also their access to social life at home. Only people certified as immune to Covid-19 would be able to go to pubs, football arenas and other public venues, they fear.

There is, however, plenty of evidence to feed the skeptics' concerns. Some preparatory work for a "Covid-19 Certification/Passport" electronic system has been ordered by the government and discovered in public-contract records.

There is also vocal support for international vaccination passports coming from public figures like former prime minister Tony Blair and some media outlets. Opponents perceive it as laying the groundwork for pushing the domestic versions of such a document.

Meanwhile other nations, such as Denmark, have said they intend to introduce digital Covid-19 passports as part of reopening their economies. Concerned Britons expect their government to come under pressure from across the Channel to follow the example.

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Saturday that he will vote to acquit former President Trump, ending weeks of speculation about what he would do.

McConnell's decision, confirmed to The Hill by a GOP senator, comes hours before the Senate is expected to take a final vote on whether to convict Trump of "high crimes and misdemeanors" over an article accusing him of inciting insurrection during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

McConnell has criticized Trump's role in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, including saying the former president "provoked" the mob. He disclosed to reporters last month that he hadn't spoken to Trump, with whom he aligned himself closely for years, since Dec. 15.

But he also kept his caucus guessing on how he would ultimately vote, saying that he wanted to listen to the arguments from both House impeachment managers and Trump's legal team.

"Based on his comments over the past two months, I really had no idea what he was going to do," said Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), a member of GOP leadership.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said on Friday that he'll meet with former President Donald Trump to talk about the future of the Republican party and his role in it.

"I'm going to try and convince him that we can't get there without you, but you can't keep the Trump movement going without the GOP united," Graham said, according to Politico.

"If we come back in 2022, then, it's an affirmation of your policies. But if we lose again in 2022, the narrative is going to continue that not only you lost the White House, but the Republican Party is in a bad spot."

Although the Republicans lost the Senate and White House during the 2020 elections, they gained seats in the House. Trump also received the second most votes in a presidential election in U.S. history, even while he trailed Biden significantly in the popular vote and the Electoral College.

Since then, however, Trump's actions contesting the election, culminating in the ugly and deadly mob attack on the Capitol that led to his second impeachment, has raised new questions in GOP circles about moving on from the former president.

At the same time, Trump retains a high level of support in the GOP grassroots.

RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel has talked before about Trump's future in the party saying that the party will keep a neutral stance on the former president as he has caused strife in the party.

"Trump's got to work with everybody," Graham said. "You got to put your best team on the field. If it's about revenge and going after people you don't like, we're going to have a problem. If this is about putting your best team on the field, we've got a decent chance at coming back."

In a decision that will shock few and surprise fewer, the New York Times editorial board has declared Donald Trump guilty. No matter the charges or evidence, the Times has been making this case for four years.

"If you fail to hold him accountable, it can happen again," the Times' editorial board wrote on Friday, in a plea to Republican senators to convict the former president.

"To excuse Mr. Trump's attack on American democracy would invite more such attempts, by him and by other aspiring autocrats," they declared. "The stakes could not be higher. A vote for impunity is an act of complicity."

That the New York Times would call for Trump's conviction is unsurprising. This is the same editorial board that described Trump's re-election campaign as "the greatest threat to American democracy since World War II," demanded lawmakers impeach the president back in 2019, then "Impeach Trump Again" after his supporters rioted at the US Capitol last month, and called for the overhaul of the entire political system to prevent someone like Trump ever coming to power again. In fact, the only decision of Trump's the board praised was his use of missile strikes against Syria in 2018, which it called "reassuring."