Posted on 12/04/2017 9:40:14 AM PST by Signalman
President Trump was pleased with constitutional law scholar Alan Dershowitz’s defense of him over his firing of former FBI Director James Comey, calling the Harvard Law professor’s analysis on Fox News a “must watch” interview.
“A must watch: Legal Scholar Alan Dershowitz was just on @foxandfriendstalking of what is going on with respect to the greatest Witch Hunt in U.S. political history. Enjoy!” Trump wrote on Twitter.
Dershowitz, a lifelong Democrat, said Trump has the constitutional right as president to fire his FBI director.
“You cannot charge a president with obstruction of justice for exercising his constitutional power to fire Comey and his constitutional authority to tell the Justice Department who to investigate, who not to investigate,” Dershowitz said during an interview with Fox News.
“We have precedents that clearly establish that.”
Talk of the president obstructing justice resurfaced after his former national security adviser, retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI last week about his conversation with the Russian ambassador.
Trump didn’t help matters by tweeting over the weekend that he knew Flynn lied to the FBI.
“I had to fire General Flynn because he lied to the Vice President and the FBI. He has pled guilty to those lies,” Trump wrote. “It is a shame because his actions during the transition were lawful. There was nothing to hide!”
Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) said over the weekend that a Senate investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election has revealed possible obstruction.
"I see it in the hyper-frenetic attitude of the White House, the comments every day, the continual tweets. And I see it most importantly in what happened with the firing of Director Comey, and it is my belief that that is directly because he did not agree to ‘lift the cloud’ of the Russia investigation. That’s obstruction of justice,” Feinstein said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
But Dershowitz disagreed.
"If Congress were ever to charge him with obstruction of justice for exercising his constitutional authority under Article II, we'd have a constitutional crisis," he said.
The famed attorney explained “clearly illegal acts” on the president’s part would need to be proven.
"There's never been a case in history where a president has been charged with obstruction of justice for merely exercising his constitutional authority. That would cause a constitutional crisis in the United States," Dershowitz said, hoping Special Counsel Robert Mueller understands that.
"And Sen. Feinstein simply doesn't know what she's talking about when she says it's obstruction of justice to do what a president is completely authorized to do under the Constitution."
Dershowitz: ‘You Cannot Charge a President With Obstruction for Exercising His Constitutional Power’!
Breitbart ^ | 4 Dec 2017 | JEFF POOR
Posted on 12/4/2017, 9:29:24 AM by Mr. Mojo
Monday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz batted down the merit of obstruction of justice charges aimed at President Donald Trump for what he said was exercising his constitutional power and authority regarding the firing of then-FBI Director James Comey and instructing the Department of Justice what to and not to investigate.
“If Congress were to ever charge him with obstruction of justice for exercising his constitutional authority under Article 2, we’d have a constitutional crisis,” he explained. “You cannot charge a president with obstruction of justice for exercising his constitutional power to fire Comey and his constitutional authority to tell the Justice Department who to investigate, who not to investigate. That’s what Thomas Jefferson did. That’s what Lincoln did. That’s what Roosevelt did. We have precedents that clearly establish that.”
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Even though we might fundamentally disagree with Dershowitz on a good number of things, this is a really disturbing thing to see how this really about him not leaving the Democrats but more like the Democrats leaving him instead.
Since when has not knowing what she is talking about stopped her from speaking?
“If Congress were ever to charge him with obstruction of justice for exercising his constitutional authority under Article II, we’d have a constitutional crisis,” he said.
Yes we would and the hucksters perpetrating this will suffer greatly.
Dershowitz may be literally be the last honest Democrat.
😂👍🏼
DERSHOWITZ FOR SPECIAL PROSECUTOR!
..to investigate Mueller and the rest of the swamp. At least he calls them like he see them!
This is an absurd argument. The President can pardon himself— you knew that. How could The PREASIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES be charged with anything? He is the chief officer of the judicial department and all executive offices under the Constitution. How can the President as chief of the executive branch charge himself? These liberal are embarrassing themselves trying to believe their own Bull crap. The only remedy is impeachment. The removal of Trump on nothing will cause a bloody revolution. So these detractors can go straight to hell. We won!! Suck it up , Butter cup And it is just beginning.
Not a bad idea!
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) is the PRIME protector
of child rapists, know known worldwide as PIZZAGATE.
Of course “collusion” with Russia was a bullshit charge used simply to provide cover for Hillary and open an investigation.
The ONLY things that has been proven to me in this process are
1) the Deep State exists. It is in a battle with Trump
2) the FBI, CIA, and NSA are the most politically corrupt agencies in Fed.gov. Given their immense power, the temptation for abuse is always there, and unfortunately, they have succumbed to this temptation, esp. under Obama.
3) Elections do not matter to America’s elites and bankers.
Feinstein's a puffed up empty headed 'elite'. Dershowitz is right once again.
The President can NOT pardon himself....
The Democrats are putting out this impeachment nonsense to fire up their base for the 2018 election.
He’s a lawyer and a damn well good lawyer he knows the LAW..something Feinstein knows NOTHING about
I think they are talking Apple’s and oranges. She is making a political argument based upon hysteria and he a legal one based on precedent and the constitution.
Include Pat Caddell
Democrats NEVER know what they’re talking about.
DERSHOWITZ FOR SPECIAL PROSECUTOR!
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