Dershowitz said it was 'dangerous' to base an impeachment on assumptions about what a president was thinking because 'everybody has mixed motives.'
Attorney Alan Dershowitz, a member of President Donald Trump's legal team, alarmed Democrats and many legal scholar for his argument in thein the Senate impeachment trial that presidents cannot be removed from office for an action they believe could help get them re-elected.
Dershowitz went on to say it was"dangerous" to base an impeachment on assumptions about what a president was thinking when he or she made a controversial decision because"everybody has mixed motives." On Twitter, Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe, a longtime critic of both Trump and Dershowitz, compared the argument to French King Louis XIV's declaration,"L'état, c'est moi," meaning,"I am the state."
"Alan Dershowitz unimpeached Richard Nixon today. All Nixon was doing was obstructing justice and abusing power because he thought he was the best person for the USA to be POTUS," Dean said in a tweet.
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