If you asked me to explain the many twists and turns the impeachment trial has taken in the last few days, I would fail catastrophically. But, something I do understand quite comprehensively, is that Alan Dershowitz is dumb as hell, and thankfully, everyone seems to agree with me!\n
labeled the new legal strategy a “load of nonsense,” and claimed that by Dershowitz’s logic,. Legal scholars also took issue with the characterization of the president’s powers, like, the dean of Berkeley Law School. In response to Dershowitz, he told NBC News: “It means that a president could break any law or abuse any power and say that it was for the public interest, because the public interest would be served by his or her election.
Since yesterday, Dershowitz has performed a series of mental backflips and walk-backs on Twitter to explain his perplexing rationale: In later tweets, he wrote that most incumbent presidents seeking re-election are motivated by “mixed” interests, and “helping the national interest in a way that helps your re-election efforts.” In an op-ed for The HillMixed motives are always matters of degree and, if they become a criteria for impeachment, they can be used selectively against certain candidates and not others. That is the danger to which I was alluding.
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