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Impeachment scholars are wrong to intimidate lawyers of Donald Trump
The Hill - Opinion ^ | Feburary 8, 2021 | Alan Dershowitz

Posted on 02/09/2021 8:41:32 AM PST by Yo-Yo

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Video of Alan making the same argument against the 144 "Scholars"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8AD41-rxYg

1 posted on 02/09/2021 8:41:32 AM PST by Yo-Yo
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To: Yo-Yo

If Trump’s attorneys are “intimidated”, then they are the wrong attorneys. Seems pretty clear to me.


2 posted on 02/09/2021 8:45:09 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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To: Yo-Yo

Every day it gets worse. These people are out of control. As Orwell said: A boot stomping on a human face. Forever.


3 posted on 02/09/2021 8:45:24 AM PST by ClearCase_guy ("I see you did something -- why you so racist?")
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To: rktman
Those who intimidate others to stop speech they do not like are following long-standing totalitarian traditions.

The Left has always relied on suppressing speech they do not like, because they cannot win an honest argument.

4 posted on 02/09/2021 8:49:21 AM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries. )
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To: Yo-Yo; impimp; PGalt

So, Dersh...is my choice of haberdashery protected by the 1st Amendment?
Can any government authority establish a “publicly acceptable clothing or costume” for citizens without transgressing the 1st amendment?
How about acceptable outerwear for use in a public accommodation, like a store?
What about making it against the law to NOT wear a mask?


5 posted on 02/09/2021 8:50:23 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Patriots, stop looking at the politicians as enemies. Look at the complicit Legacy Media.)
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To: Yo-Yo

When the federal government attempts to punish a former president, who is now just another Private Fraking Citizen, for supposed acts insinuated by those federal employees, there is no law!!


6 posted on 02/09/2021 8:50:29 AM PST by Terry L Smith
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Liberals trotting out all of those “constitutional scholars” again as cover for liberal misdeeds

By their own words, Obama is considered a “constitutional scholar”.

I’m just a ditch digger, but I obviously know more about the Constitution than any of them

Their “opinions” ain’t worth a bucket of warm spit


7 posted on 02/09/2021 8:55:42 AM PST by digger48
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To: marktwain

Didn’t a “famous” former first ‘lady’ start some sort of intiative to end bullying? Oh, only certain bullying. Got it. :-)


8 posted on 02/09/2021 9:11:22 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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140 constitutional scholars have issued a public letter

And who organized this, Nancy Pelosi? This seems to be a pattern now. Like all the former military who came out against Martial law.

9 posted on 02/09/2021 9:12:19 AM PST by McGruff
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This approach of finding a bunch of “scholars” to sign onto the attack Trump or Republican issue of the day is more clearly driven by a “community organizer” each time they use it. Obama didn’t stay in DC for the cultural events.


10 posted on 02/09/2021 9:14:16 AM PST by LibertyOh
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To: Yo-Yo
President Trump has options.

1) Call out Harris for not being a Natural Born Citizen as defined in Sen. Resolution 511 (2008). Neither of her parents were ‘... American citizen parents’ at her birth.

see - link regarding NBC

2) Call out Obama for not being a Natural Born Citizen and remove the 44th President from history.

3) Have the FEC de-certify the Democrat National Committee as an on-going criminal enterprise for proposing unqualified candidates in past elections. Overnite all the (D)s become (I)s.

4) Challenge the seats of all members of Congress who voted to certify Gropin’ Joe and Kamalatoes and remove the ones elected in fraud-ridden elections.

5) Put up a ‘Help Wanted’ with the thought of firing and replacing 2/3 of all non-military federal workers. That would include the entire FBI, and the arrest of all CIA operatives found stateside.

You can find the meaning of Natural Born Citizen here.

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/United_States_Statutes_at_Large/Volume_1/1st_Congress/2nd_Session/Chapter_3

Look for this part:

“And the children of citizens of the United States, that may be born beyond sea, Also, children of citizens born beyond sea, &c. or out of the limits of the United States, shall be considered as natural born citizens: Provided, That the right of citizenship shall not descend to persons whose fathers have never been resident in the United States”

That seams to be a painfully clear definition of what was meant by “Natural Born Citizen” to me.

11 posted on 02/09/2021 9:15:04 AM PST by RideForever (We are born to be tested ...)
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To: Yo-Yo

Thanks for posting.


12 posted on 02/09/2021 9:20:59 AM PST by Rusty0604 (" When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat." -Ronald Reagan)
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Those who intimidate others to stop speech they do not like are following long-standing totalitarian traditions. The Left has always relied on suppressing speech they do not like, because they cannot win an honest argument.

Partner, the DemonRats have put their foot in their mouth.

Great post.

13 posted on 02/09/2021 9:22:14 AM PST by TheConservativeTejano (The Business of America is Business...)
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To: Yo-Yo

...more than 140 constitutional scholars have issued a public letter to his lawyers with the demand, in effect, that they not make arguments to the Senate regarding the First Amendment.

This is a pure marxist tactic; as if with a large enough number you can then “vote” the truth.


14 posted on 02/09/2021 9:24:07 AM PST by Flick Lives (“Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
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To: Flick Lives

Freshmen in high school are ‘scholars’.


15 posted on 02/09/2021 9:25:55 AM PST by RideForever (We are born to be tested ...)
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WOW A 140 LAWYERS!!!


16 posted on 02/09/2021 9:34:19 AM PST by bobrlbob
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To: ClearCase_guy

The fascist Dims, anarchists, leftists and America haters have one thing to tell the resistors. “Be quiet and take your lashing. It will all be over soon and you will survive. Stop struggling and we will leave you alone.” Who believes them?


17 posted on 02/09/2021 9:35:18 AM PST by Savage Rider
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Yup. It’s a common tactic of the left to select “scholars” or “authorities” for these public letters to shape opinion and intimidate.

The United States finds itself in an era of unity through fascism. We’ve always seen it on a smaller scale where minorities think freely and #walkaway, run for office as GOP or join a GOP administration. It’s extended from Condi Rice to Carl DeMaio to Richard Grenell to Ben Carson and many others all who have been savaged personally, described as race traitors, been lied about and smeared. Colin Powell couldn’t stand up to the pressure and went home to the Democratic plantation.

This is why they ran with the Big Lie from 2016 onward that Trump was a white nationalist in order to intimidate the deplorables and fight his genuine outreach to minorities.


18 posted on 02/09/2021 9:49:21 AM PST by newzjunkey (America First - bring on Giant Meteor in 2021)
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To: Savage Rider

They will never really leave us alone. They will continue to move the line further and further. We’re at the point now where “women’s sports” are no longer the domain of natural born women. But if you criticize their movement, you are smeared. They all but rewrote the book on racial equality last summer with BLM and their assault on basic values like hard work, self determination, being on time as white privilege and white fragility.

Now we are seeing academics attack the enlightenment which gave us individual liberty, checks and balances in government as the racist embodiment of white values.

We have been losing free speech on the center right for years now but it’s never been more at risk.


19 posted on 02/09/2021 9:57:39 AM PST by newzjunkey (America First - bring on Giant Meteor in 2021)
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You've gotta give Mr Dershowitz credit for courage. IIRC he's already mentioned that the number of invitations he receives for Martha's Vineyard cocktail parties have dropped substantially in recent times. And it wouldn't surprise me if he's also seen a drop in book sales and other types of income as well.

A liberal Democrat with principles and a dedication to the rule of law....almost as rare as the dodo bird!

20 posted on 02/09/2021 10:12:42 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Trump: "They're After You. I'm Just In The Way")
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