Renowned legal scholar Alan Dershowitz agreed with President Donald Trump Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh that sitting presidents should not be criminally prosecuted or investigated, and that impeachment is the proper remedy to wrongdoing by the chief executive.
Democrats, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, are promulgating an argument that President Trump chose Kavanaugh to shield himself from special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.
“Kavanaugh is 100 percent correct,” the Harvard law professor emeritus told Fox News host Bill Hemmer on Wednesday.
“Not only is he right about the president. He’s right about the Senate and the House,” Dershowitz continued. “They can’t be investigated for what they’ve done on the floor. It is right about judges and prosecutors.”
“All of them are immune from investigation. They’re immune from prosecution for performing their constitutionally authorized acts,” he said. – READ MORE
[divider][/divider]Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz said he has had a harder time defending President Trump than he did with other “unpopular” figures like O.J. Simpson.
In an interview with The New York Times published on Saturday, Dershowitz dove into the fallout he received following a column he penned for The Hill, in which he argued that he had fallen victim to McCarthy-like shunning tactics by his colleagues in Martha’s Vineyard.
Dershowitz, who helped acquit Simpson of murder charges in 1995, said the chilly reception came from his defense of Trump.
“I’m enjoying this,” Dershowitz said. “It’s a red badge of courage.”
“This [reception] is much worse than all that, because in those cases [Claus von Bulow or Leona Helmsley or Michael Milken or Mike Tyson] people were critical of me, but they were prepared to discuss it,” he added. “They were prepared to have a dialogue.”
Dershowitz compared his ostracism to college “safe spaces,” condemning what he said was a desire to avoid engaging in dialogue about his views. – READ MORE
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