Dershowitz Shames Dems by Listing Each Pres. Who Should Have Been Impeached Using Their Logic

Dershowitz Shames Senate Dems by Bringing Out Special List & Reading It Publicly

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By Carmine Sabia

Published January 29, 2020 at 7:46am

Harvard law professor and famed attorney Alan Dershowitz, a lifelong Democrat, dropped a nuclear bomb on the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump.

According to the House Democrats’ argument, the president engaged in an abuse of power by requesting that Ukraine open an investigation into the dealings of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son Hunter, who was paid handsomely to serve on the board of the Ukraine energy company Burisma Holdings while his father was vice president.

This argument is patently ridiculous. By that logic, all anyone would have to do in order to avoid being investigated for a crime is to announce a campaign for president. Heck, maybe if Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen simply announced runs for the White House, they would be free men today.

Dershowitz made the case powerfully during his address Monday.

“In our long history, many presidents have been accused of abusing their power,” he told the Senate. “I will now give you a list of presidents who in our history have been accused of abusing their power, who would be subject to impeachment under the House manager’s view of the Constitution.

“George Washington, refusal to turn over documents related to the Jay Treaty. “John Adams, signing and enforcing the alien and sedition laws. Thomas Jefferson, purchasing Louisiana without congressional authorization.

“I’ll go on. John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren, John Tyler, arbitrary despotic and corrupt use of the veto power. James Polk, here I quote Abraham Lincoln — Abraham Lincoln accused Polk of abusing his power of his office, contemptuously disregarding the Constitution, usurping the role of Congress and assuming the role of dictator. He didn’t seek to impeach him. He just sought to defeat him.

“Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln was accused of abusing his power for suspending the writ of habeas corpus during the Civil War.

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Poster Comment:

Dang me, dang me. They oughta take a rope and hang me.