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NewJeffCT

(56,828 posts) Tue Jan 28, 2020, 03:44 PM Jan 2020

Good point by point rebuttal of Dershowitz from yesterday

Good thread on Twitter rebutting disgraced former legal scholar Alan Dershowitz

Link to tweet

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text of the first tweet

All right let's do this: Sleight of hand #1: Dersh says he will analyze why the Framers chose the words they did as "the sole criteria for impeachment."

Nope, nothing in the doc says "SOLE CRITERIA." That's a trick he learned from FedSoc, requiring textual fealty.