[ April 18, 2024 ]
If you didn’t see Alan Dershowitz’s address last night, watch it. It is a lesson in history, ethics, and Constitutional law. And he makes a stunning case for dismissal.
As for the latest marketing blitz for the Bolton book, I have known John Bolton for the past 15 years and this is not the John Bolton that I know. He hasn’t said anything. Everyone is responding to left-elite propaganda points.
Fred Fleitz: Ambassador Bolton, withdraw your book
FOX: Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz, delivering a spirited constitutional defense of President Trump at his Senate impeachment trial Monday night, flatly turned toward House impeachment managers and declared they had picked “dangerous” and “wrong” charges against the president — noting that neither “abuse of power” nor “obstruction of Congress” was remotely close to an impeachable offense as the framers had intended.
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In a dramatic moment, the liberal constitutional law scholar reiterated that although he voted for Hillary Clinton, he could not find constitutional justification for the impeachment of a president for non-criminal conduct, or conduct that was not at least “akin” to defined criminal conduct.
Dershowitz: Trump’s Conduct in Leaked Bolton Book Manuscript ‘Does Not Constitute an Impeachable Offense’
By Mairead McArdle, National Review, January 28, 2020 9:21 AM
Alan Dershowitz, a member of President Trump’s legal team, told the Senate during arguments Monday that even if President Trump explicitly orchestrated a quid pro quo by dangling Ukrainian military aid, as alleged in a leaked excerpt of John Bolton’s book, that would still not constitute an impeachable offense.
The New York Times reported Sunday that in his upcoming book, former national security adviser John Bolton says President Trump told him personally in August that the provision of military aid to Ukraine was contingent on the opening of an investigation into Joe Biden.
Comments“Even if a president, any president, were to demand a quid pro quo as a condition to sending aid to a foreign country, obviously a highly disputed manner in this case, that would not by itself constitute an abuse of power,” Dershowitz said.
“Quid pro quo alone is not a basis for abuse of power,” the former Harvard law professor continued. “It’s part of the way that foreign policy has been operated by presidents since the beginning of time. The claim that foreign policy decisions can be deemed abuses of power based on subjective opinions about mixed or sole motives, that the president was interested only in helping himself, demonstrates the dangers of employing the vague subjective and malleable phrase of abuse of power as a constitutional criteria for the removal of a president. Based on this reasoning, the new information the Times said appears in Bolton’s book “would not constitute an impeachable offense,” Dershowitz said.
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10 Comments
4 years ago
He’s one of the brightest legal minds, ever.
4 years ago
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FormerlyNicab
I have read his books and his reasoning and defense of his points is good. Even though he is from the other side of my fence, I could sit down to dinner with this gentlemen and not have a problem discussing politics with him. Now days you could only do that if everybody was of the same thinking.
4 years ago
Reply to
FormerlyNicab
He voted for Shillariah Clinton, the liar who was ultimately responsible for “security” at the Benghanzi diplomatic compound because she was SoS. The same liar who illegally ran a top security email server in her bathroom at home. He’s never criticised the C-l-i-n-t-0-n crime family either, perhaps because he’s afraid he’ll be arkancided.
4 years ago
Reply to
FormerlyNicab
Trump has one of the greatest defenders of all time in Dershowitz; and one of the greatest prosecutors of all time in Giuliani. and Sean Hannity in the realm of public opinion. This is the real dream team.
I hope they nuke the Democrat party.
4 years ago
Reply to
TD
and Trump supporters online and sites like this. regular folks should be considered part of this dream team.
There’s no movement like this. from Trump to Brexit, to Israel. this is global.
4 years ago
Bolton is leaking “State Secrets” that could be damaging to the National Security …… if any one of us “peons” had done so, we would already be dead of in prison for the rest of our lives.
BOLTON SHOULD HANG for his High Crimes.
4 years ago
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Leonard Payne
… and, Yes, Dershowitz is conducting himself and one should do – uphold the Constitution, REGARDLESS OF “PARTY AFFILIATION”.
4 years ago
One of the greatest defense attorneys of all time – Dershowitz.
And one the greatest prosecutors of all time – Giuliani.
The REAL DREAM TEAM!
4 years ago
If the book is admitted into evidence, will the author swear under penalty of perjury that every word is true??? Will the perjury rule apply that any lie will get all that persons testimony rejected in total?? Is there any precedent for entering an entire book as sworn testimony?? If so how did that work out??
4 years ago
So, this so called ‘leak’ that supposedly claims this and that,and the other. Does it really ? We have Democrats word for it. Does Bolton even know whats in the book with his name on it?
