Sunday, January 26, 2020

Trump's leading impeachment lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, incompetent?


Alan Dershowitz has a big problem with the law and history

Alan Dershowitz

CNN's John Berman makes a solid case against Donald Trump's leading counsel in the impeachment proceedings that tends to question the competence of Alan Dershowitz. Berman, a Harvard graduate and Dershowitz a former Harvard law professor disagree about the law and about history. Here's the scenario...
“Professor Dershowitz is wrong about the law and wrong about the history here. Presidents have been impeached and tried for things that are not crimes. Judges have been impeached and tried for things that are not crimes, including drunkenness, by the way, which is not a crime.”
“And not only does Alan Dershowitz — and we played that [clip] — disagree with Alan Dershowitz, but so does Alexander Hamilton.” Here's the video...

Berman quotes John Hamilton on the issue...
"‘Those offenses which proceed from the misconduct of public men or in other words the abuse or violation of some public trust.'”
But Berman also believes this won't deter Dershowitz in the least in the proceedings.   READ MORE...

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