Posted on 05/18/2020 8:18:30 AM PDT by USA Conservative
Professor Alan M. Dershowitz is a Brooklyn native who has been called “America’s most public Jewish defender” and “Israel’s single most visible defender – the Jewish state’s lead attorney in the court of public opinion.” He is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Dershowitz, a graduate of Brooklyn College and Yale Law School, joined the Harvard Law School faculty at age 25
Love him or hate him he knows a thing or two about our constitution.
Dershowitz, 81, insists he isn’t a political supporter of President Trump and that he backed Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election.
Yet the Harvard Law professor emeritus, who has repeatedly offered a public defense for Trump since his election, he also took a star turn on the president’s legal impeachment team, delivering passionate and controversial statements extolling a broad notion of executive power. No one is saying that Dershowitz — as the president’s lawyer — should be tarred with Trump’s politics. Dershowitz represented OJ Simpson, whatever he thought of Simpson’s guilt. Representing Jeffrey Epstein has given rise to a host of allegations against Dershowitz personally, which he has vehemently denied.
Now he is back to explain the topics of mandatory vaccinations and it seems he has a different opinion on this topic too.
Video below:
https://twitter.com/QBlueSkyQ/status/1262188697631539200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1262188697631539200&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fredstatenation.com%2Fvideo-trumps-lawyer-alan-dershowitz-you-have-no-constitutional-right-to-refuse-vaccinations%2F
The full video below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohS4Ag4RGMQ&feature=emb_title
At least now we all know which side he picked.
The election of President Donald Trump raised grave concerns for the future of vaccination in the United States. Trump had frequently embraced—both before and during his election campaign allegations linking childhood vaccines to autism. Shortly before his inauguration, he met with Robert F. Kennedy Jr, one of the most prominent and vocal critics of vaccine safety and current US vaccine policy, who announced after that meeting that he would lead a presidential “vaccine safety commission” charged with investigating these topics.
When it comes to mandatory COVID-19 vaccines President Trump respects the opinion of its citizens.
The president said Friday the US economy will begin reopening even without a vaccine. During his remarks, truckers staging a protest in Washington against state stay-at-home orders and social distancing practices that have collapsed the economy began honking their horns. Trump applauded the protesters, describing them as his supporters.
“Vaccine or no vaccine we’re back and we’re starting the process,” he said.
Trump once again insisted the coronavirus will somehow disappear even without vaccination, a prospect his own top health advisers have dismissed as unrealistic.
“I think we’re going have a vaccine in the pretty near future and if we do we’re going to really be a big step ahead, and if we don’t, it’ll be like so many other cases where you had a problem come in, it’ll go away at some point, it’ll go away,” Trump said.
He also indicated that vaccination won’t be mandatory. “Not everybody’s going to want to get it,” he said.
Watch the moment below:
Some Americans question the safety of vaccination.
More than one in 10 U.S. adults would turn down a coronavirus vaccine, according to recent polling.
Research from Morning Consult found 14 percent said they would not get vaccinated against COVID-19.
The age group most likely to turn down such a treatment were those between 35 and 44, at 18 percent.
While in political splits, Republicans were most likely to turn it down at 20 percent, followed by independents at 16, then Democrats at 7.
And more than a few of the girls have said he was in a compromising position there.
what matters is what happens in a court of law but it doesn’t seem like anybody will survive getting that far
You cannot compel a person to get any medical procedure.
If they can force you to get a vaccination they can force you to carry life insurance and health insurance and homeowners insurance and everything else. It’s for your own good.
what a loser.
I respect Alan Dershowitz a great deal — I’m sure he firmly believes this particular idea, but I still disagree: I do have the right to refuse a vaccination, especially one that would put a chip ID under my skin (the Mark?).
So?
My rights come from God, not some piece of paper, and CERTAINLY not from any government!
All a Constitution does is act as a restraint to try to prevent GOVERNMENT from infringing on those rights.
Bogus click bait headline.
Huh. What happened to “MY BODY, MY CHOICE”? Or, does that just apply to KILLING BABIES?
This rag is worthless. President Trump made no such claim nor did he even insinuate such nonsense, let alone outright insisted it was the case.
Which also means forced abortions.
It never was considered to be mandatory. “Fear baiters” both in media and otherwise love to see people upset so they can create division....even before there’s even a vaccine to get!
We live where this first came to the country. Its highly contagious. My guess would be that a very high percentage here have either developed antibodies or are resistant from past exposures to similar coronavirus strains. These people would have no benefit from the vaccination.
Dersh is wrong about this.
He’s been wrong before.
He thinks a British subject/Kenyan is a natural born citizen.
Dershowitz is right, at least as far as the courts are concerned. The Supreme Court held over a century ago in Jacobson v. Massachusetts that mandatory vaccination laws do not violate the constitution. That case has never been overruled and is still cited today.
Do you have a Constitutional right to a vaccine?
This made me super mad but I think I understand where he’s coming from —
Although our courts messed it up — the Constitution SAYS I have a right to keep and bear arms.
The Constitution SAYS I have the right to free speech.
etc.
The Constitution says NOTHING about vaccines. It is silent. It provides me no protection in this area. It doesn’t say I have to take them. It doesn’t say I can refuse. It says nothing.
Dershowitz is simply saying that if your state legislature passes a Vaccine law, then you have no recourse (other than to move).
Huh. What happened to “MY BODY, MY CHOICE”? Or, does that just apply to KILLING BABIES?
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Yes. That applies only to murdering babies because only the left gets to make the rules. The right’s only duty is to make sure those rules are followed, often while complaining publicly about them and, if they get really agitated, form a committee to investigate it for five or ten years.
In a way, this hinges on Roe v Wade. Can I make medical choices? Do I control my body? At the federal level, does the Constitution give me this kind of power? Or is it a state decision with the Constitution playing no role at all?
I think mandatory vaccines AND abortion should be decided by your state legislature.
a fool in paradise wrote: “You cannot compel a person to get any medical procedure. If they can force you to get a vaccination they can force you to carry life insurance and health insurance and homeowners insurance and everything else. It’s for your own good.”
A series of strawman arguments. Dershowitz is saying that you cannot endanger your fellow citizens. Whether you have insurance is irrelevant to that point.
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