Alan Dershowitz's stark warning: Justice system becoming infected by critical race theory

Just The News ^ | 25 Nov, 2021 | John Solomon

[MtnClimber]

"Trials and justice have ceased to be about individual justice," famed law professor says. "They're about identity politics."

Alan Dershowitz, the famed law scholar and appellate lawyer, has a stark warning for judges, prosecutors and defense lawyers: America's justice system is being corrupted by identity politics and critical race theory.

In an interview with Just the News, Dershowitz deplored the growing trend in recent criminal cases toward political agendas supplanting the neutral consideration of evidence and law that has been the lifeblood of U.S. jurisprudence for more than two centuries.

"It's becoming much more responsive, unfortunately, to critical race theory, basically, everything's about race," Dershowitz told the John Solomon Reports podcast in an interview aired this week. "Everything's about race or politics.

"The justice system has stopped being about is this particular person innocent or guilty beyond a reasonable doubt based on the evidence and based on the law. People today are rooting, cheering for verdicts. They want verdicts to reflect their narrative. They want verdicts to prove their way of looking at the world. Trials and justice have ceased to be about individual justice. They're about identity politics."

[MtnClimber]

It looks like we are at stage 6.

The

Ten Stages

of Genocide

By Dr. Gregory H. Stanton

President, Genocide Watch

Copyright 1996

I. Classification
​
ii. Symbolization
​
iii. Discrimination
​
iv. Dehumanization
​
v. Organization
​
vi. Polarization
​
vii. Preparation
​
viii. Persecution
​
​ix. Extermination
​
x. Denia

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Thank you, Captain Obvious.

[high info voter]

WHO’s running our justice(sic) system???

[Billthedrill]

Critical Legal Theory has been around for longer than Critical Race Theory and explains in part why the latter has so roared through the legal institutions. Full explanation is beyond a simple FR posting but the gist of it is that all law is defined as the act of an oppressor class to keep another class down - identification of these classes with race is what sets CRT apart, but it's exactly the same mechanism. Social justice is defined as using the institution to reverse the identities of oppressor and oppressed - there is no attempt to create an even playing field because such a thing has been defined out of existence as illusory. It is law itself that creates such inequities.

The Wiki article on the topic is in my view overly sympathetic and blind to the negative consequences of putting this form of social theory into practice. But if parts of the legal system in America now look to be grossly tilted, they are, it's deliberate, and this is why.

[marktwain]

"The killings in the past couple of years, particularly the George Floyd, changed the concept of race in America.

Non-sense

The "killings" did not do it. They were used by the "woke" and other enemies of the USA to push CRT, so as to fracture and destroy America.

Now, people are starting to fight back.

[Carl Vehse]

"Alan Dershowitz's stark warning: Justice system becoming infected by critical race theory"

The "justice" system is already infected with treason!

[AndyJackson]

is being corrupted

Alan, why are you using present tense to describe an historical event? It is either "has been corrupted," if recent past and still ongoing or, if you are writing an obituary on the American constitution, "had been corrupted."

[livius]

Interesting. I’d never heard of Critical Legal Theory before, but it looks like it’s been percolating along under the radar…outside of public consciousness, at least…for some time now.

And you’re right, it definitely laid the groundwork for CRT, which I guess you could describe as its social partner, extending the theory to society and social institutions in general.

I bet Merrick Garland is fully versed in CLT.

Thanks for posting.

[Cboldt]

aka “persecution theology.” Been around since the 1950’s anyway. Marxist tool.

[Roccus]

Listening to FOX Sports radio today heard an ad repeated several times. Ad was proclaiming how the FBI is helping to fight “hate crimes” and gave phone # to call if one felt they were the victim of same.

https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/civil-rights/hate-crimes

https://www.hstoday.us/fbi/fbi-awareness-campaign-encourages-the-public-to-report-hate-crimes/

[livius]

Only if you’re the right color and it’s the right hate.

[moehoward]

Exemplified by the Rittenhouse trial. Prosecution practicing CRT but thankfully the Judge wasn’t.

[Paperpusher]

KGB henchman Laverntiy Beria said, “show me the man,” and we’ll “find you the crime.”

[Roccus]

Evidently this is a big push being put on by the G men.

All us white supremacists are gonna be in for it now. Those 99.9% good and honorable FBI agents will be gunning for us armed with warrants based on anonymous phone tips.
Instead of getting SWATed, we’ll be gettin’ “HATEd”

[Jacquerie]

And don’t forget, an Article V Convention of the States is too dangerous to even consider. /s

[FreedomPoster]

They should be inundated with calls about the Waukesha Massacre hate crime.

[Hot Tabasco]

Alan, why are you using present tense to describe an historical event?

It's obvious that he didn't have you to consult with before he wrote the article.......

So many sages here are being completely ignored by the likes of Alan when they write their columns.

How do we fix that so that folks like you can get the proper recognition you deserve?

[AndyJackson]

LOL!

[wardaddy]

It’s infected period