Dershowitz: Supreme Court could overturn a Trump impeachment

[mahatmakanejeeves]

This is the legal advice Trump gets before he meets with Putin.
Trump could give Alaska back to Russia and not be impeached?
Collusion with an adversary and lying about it are not impeachable?
This is nuts.
Congress should do its job and boot Trump now.

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Dershowitz: Supreme Court could overturn a Trump impeachment

BY ARIS FOLLEY - 07/10/18 10:52 AM EDT

Alan Dershowitz in a new book says that in the event President Trump is ever impeached, the Supreme Court could intervene and overturn the vote to remove him from office.

Dershowitz pens in “The Case Against Impeaching Trump” that if evidence of collusion with the Russian government arose that incriminated Trump, it would not be a criminal offense.

“It's not a crime to collude with a foreign government. Maybe it should be, but it's not,” Dershowitz told the Washington Examiner prior to his Tuesday book release.

Dershowitz further explained that though such collusion would be a “political sin,” it does not entirely meet the Constitution’s specification of “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors” needed for impeachment.

[lagomorph777]

1. Dershitwitz and Ghouliani or Lewis and Martin?

Which is sillier?

[JDC]

2. F Alan Dershowitz.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

12. +1,000,000!!!

[Orangeutan]

3. So, lying about a blow job is impeachable.

Selling out the country to our enemy is not.

Got it. Thanks Alan. Hope they paintball your house on Martha's Vineyard.

[JHan]

4. NYT is trying to make me care that Alan is spurned by the "liberal elite" in Martha's Vineyard...

I don't care NYT.

He is now a fucking disgrace, a clown show.

[Turbineguy]

5. No wonder his friends

shun him.

[Snellius]

6. And justices can also be impeached

Impeach them all. Impeach everyone until there's no one left. "You're out of order!" "No, you're out of order". This whole government is out of order. This candy machine is out of order.

Impeach Alan Dershowitz! Notice he never talks when there's anyone else around to contradict him.

[unblock]

7. so misleading as to be lying.

"colluding" in and of itself may not be a crime, but of course it depends on what exactly you're "colluding" about.

seeing as we're talking about colluding about things like espionage, electronic theft, illegal campaign contributions, and so on, there most certainly are criminal offenses involved.


moreover, "high crimes and misdemeanors" has never been understood to mean only crimes as defined by federal statutes. it's always been understood to include things like dereliction of duty or abuse of office and so on. things that aren't crimes at all, but which make someone clearly unfit for office.

moreover, it would be an enormous departure of more than two centuries of jurisprudence for the supreme court to insert itself into a constitutional process that mentions the other two branches of government but not the their, beyond the chief justice presiding over the impeachment trial. the idea that the supreme court could then act as a court of appeals for an impeached and removed official is a complete constitutional fabrication.

[pbmus]

11. Similar to ghouliani, jerkowitch mixes truth and untruth...

To obfuscate, confabulate, and misinform the deplorables...

[wryter2000]

8. What in Hell is wrong with this man?

Does Putin have a pee_pee tape of him, too?

[Wwcd]

9. Looking for McConnell to shove Kavanaugh thru before Trump returns!!

He's psycho in an "old guard" way.

[democratisphere]

10. dershowitz is a puny a-hole.

Anything for the spotlight.

[beachbum bob]

13. Delusional...the Supreme Court has no standing in this