This is from tonight’s Sean Hannity Show on Fox: Now watch the Trumpists turn on him on the former Harvard law professor:...
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Eric Metaxas on Mike “MyPillow Guy” Lindell’s conspiracy theories: “I’m tracking perfectly with you” and I am “in awe” of what you are saying
Sidney Powell says that no reasonable person would believe her claim that Dominion Voting Systems rigged the 2020 presidential election. Does this mean that Mike Lindell and Eric Metaxas are not reasonable? The MyPillow Guy still believes that Dominion Voting...
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Today the court evangelicals are under intense religious persecution. Why? Because they might be kicked-off Twitter and Facebook.
There is a good chance that by the end of the week Donald Trump will be the first president in United States history to be impeached twice. Once again, I am reminded of Billy Graham biographer Grant Wacker’s words about...
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Alan Dershowitz on the Academic Margins
Alan Dershowitz‘s case against the removal of Donald Trump may have won over many GOP Senators during the president’s impeachment trial, but it has failed to convince law professors, legal scholars, and historians. At one point during the trial, Dershowtiz...
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Lamar Alexander’s Statement is Full of Historical Problems
If Lamar Alexander wants to oppose witnesses in the Donald Trump impeachment trial he has that right. But spare us the “history” lesson. Alexander statement says: I worked with other senators to make sure that we have the right to...
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Jonathan Turley Criticizes Alan Dershowitz’s “Suprising and Baffling” Claims on the Floor of the Senate
Some of you remember Jonathan Turley. He is the George Washington University law professor who testified before the House Judiciary Committee during the impeachment inquiry. Turley argued that there was not enough evidence to impeach Donald Trump. Turley still believes...
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Heather Cox Richardson on Alan Dershowitz’s Absurd Argument on the Senate Floor
Here is Boston College history professor Heather Cox Richardson at her site, “Letters from an American“: Today, on the floor of the Senate, retired Harvard Professor Alan Dershowitz said the quiet part out loud. Trying to argue that it was...
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What Happened in the Senate Yesterday?
CNN has a nice overview. Here is a taste: Republicans have variously argued that Trump did nothing wrong, the Democrats made up impeachment charges or that there was no quid pro quo in Ukraine. But they have apparently been pushed...
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“Dershowitz’s view is so absurd that I don’t know of even one legal scholar who studies the Constitution who agrees with him”
During the impeachment trial, Trump defense lawyer Alan Dershowitz made the case that “abuse of power” is not an impeachable offense. Harvard University constitutional law scholar Noah Feldman (along with nearly all other constitution scholars) disagree. Here is Feldman today...
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Is Alan Dershowitz Secretly Working for the Democrats?
I am just kidding, but this was certainly strange: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebm0IUQ1jHU&w=560&h=315] Let’s summarize and breakdown this argument: Dershowitz says that a president can engage in three types of quid pro quos: for the public good, for the political interest of...
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Watch Alan Dershowitz and Robert Jeffress Revel in Trump’s Support for Mike Pompeo’s Treatment of an NPR Reporter
Here is the video from today’s roll-out of Trump’s Middle East peace plan: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF_CCAdYepc&w=560&h=315] If you are unfamiliar with Pompeo’s treatment of NPR reporter Mary Louise Kelly get up to speed here and here. At about the 0:25 mark...
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Trump’s Defense Thus Far:
There was no quid pro quo (Jay Sekulow and Robert Cipollone). The Ukraine call was about “burden sharing.” Joe Biden, Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, Joe Biden (Pam Bondi and Eric Herschmann). This impeachment is too partisan (multiple members...
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“Mr. Dershowitz is an expert on civil liberties and criminal law and procedure, not constitutional law generally”
Steven Harper is a lawyer, graduate of Harvard Law School, and an adjunct professor of law at Northwestern University. While at Harvard he took a class with Alan Dershowitz, a member of Donald Trump’s impeachment defense team. I think it...
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I Think the Circus Just Came to Washington
In case you haven’t heard, Trump has added Ken Starr, Alan Dershowitz, and Robert Ray to his defense team. I think the days of Dershowitz receiving dinner invitations on Martha’s Vineyard are over. The shunning will only get worse. In...
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