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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAlan Dershowitz is not our friend and despite his Trump like ego...
Alan Dershowitz is not our friend and despite his Trump like ego he is not the only smart attorney on the planet. Let the Deplorables have him as their mascot:
Famed defense lawyer Alan Dershowitz has emerged as one of Donald Trumps most full-throated defenders first in the Russia matter, then in the Comey firing. In so doing, he has devised a bold argument, already rapidly being taken to heart by other Trump defenders: an astonishing and novel claim of the presidents absolute personal control over the FBI.
Lets deal quickly with the most obvious answer to this claim, because it involves only basic logic.
Article II Section 2 of the Constitution explicitly confers on the president the power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States. It sets no limit on that power. But that would not make it acceptable if a president sold pardons for bribes.
In other words, even the presidents most core powers may not be abused for wrongful purposesand a president firing an FBI director to protect himself from an espionage investigation would seem about as wrongful as it gets.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/the-danger-of-letting-trump-politicize-the-fbi/527562/
Famed defense lawyer Alan Dershowitz has emerged as one of Donald Trumps most full-throated defenders first in the Russia matter, then in the Comey firing. In so doing, he has devised a bold argument, already rapidly being taken to heart by other Trump defenders: an astonishing and novel claim of the presidents absolute personal control over the FBI.
Lets deal quickly with the most obvious answer to this claim, because it involves only basic logic.
Article II Section 2 of the Constitution explicitly confers on the president the power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States. It sets no limit on that power. But that would not make it acceptable if a president sold pardons for bribes.
In other words, even the presidents most core powers may not be abused for wrongful purposesand a president firing an FBI director to protect himself from an espionage investigation would seem about as wrongful as it gets.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/the-danger-of-letting-trump-politicize-the-fbi/527562/
Do we really need an explanation of the difference between the use of power and the abuse of power ? If Governor Brown pardoned Charlie Manson and Sirhan Sirhan that would be an abuse of power. If Governor Brown pardoned a man or woman who was wrongly convicted that would be a use of power.
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Alan Dershowitz is not our friend and despite his Trump like ego... (Original Post)
DemocratSinceBirth
May 2017
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(1,622 posts)1. For Dershowitz, it's all about Israel...
...that's the reason his lips are cemented to Chump's ass.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,711 posts)2. He just wants his name in the news.
hlthe2b
(102,360 posts)3. He defended torture too. Laurence Tribe (see his twitter if interested) took him down a peg recently
dalton99a
(81,578 posts)4. RW attention whore who thinks he's some kind of eminent legal scholar
JaneQPublic
(7,113 posts)5. He's Greta's Idol.
She wanted him to be the special counsel before they chose Mueller.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)6. Dershowitz made a 180-degree heel turn after 9-11...
I thought everyone knew this?
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,711 posts)7. Very disappointing.
Any way he is one of many tv lawyers.