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Alan Dershowitz to Defend Jan. 6 Client
Newsmax ^ | ] Friday, 15 April 2022 11:38 AM | By Charlie McCarthy

Posted on 04/15/2022 10:18:34 PM PDT by RandFan

Despite "fundamentally" disagreeing with the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol demonstrators over the 2020 presidential election, attorney Alan Dershowitz has taken one on as a client.

Dershowitz will defend Brady Knowlton, 41, who’s facing five counts for entering the Capitol.

"For me, it’s a simple one — I’m defending Brady’s First Amendment right to petition the government," Dershowitz

told Newsmax on Friday from New York. "We’ve seen the video that shows he believed, and reasonably believed, he was welcomed to enter the Capitol as long as he did no damage and left when he was told to leave. He did that."

The legal scholar told Newsmax that "I never pick my cases based on agreement or disagreement with my clients."

(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alandershowitz; bradyknowlton; dershowitz; january6; persecution; politicalprisoners; showtrial; thedersh
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1 posted on 04/15/2022 10:18:34 PM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

Excellent!! He’s very good, and famous. It will raise the profile of the entire charade.

They are POLITICAL PRISONERS!!!!


2 posted on 04/15/2022 10:23:40 PM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (Putin is behaving rationally.The war is on Biden and Obama. )
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To: RandFan

Maybe if the January Sixers would knock it off will all those guilty pleas this Obama crap would come to an end.


3 posted on 04/15/2022 10:28:27 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Don't blame me, I voted for President Trump. Let's Go Brandon! FJB!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

It’s pretty hard to avoid, when you’ve been in jail for a year and the government has promised to keep in jail for the next 5 years if you don’t take a quick plea now.


4 posted on 04/15/2022 11:00:09 PM PDT by Jonty30 (Ask a liberal if they have a soul or do they just collect them from lives they destroy. )
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To: RandFan

Good for Alan Dershowitz and good for his J6 clients. Looks like some prayers are being answered.


5 posted on 04/15/2022 11:20:52 PM PDT by Mr. N. Wolfe
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To: FlingWingFlyer
Well, let's see

You want to go home, love your wife, see your kids grow up, eat real food, smell the fresh air, or do you wish to rot in hell in this little 8 X 8 cell?

That giving up of your lives, fortunes, and sacred honor carries a price.

Are you willing to pay it?

6 posted on 04/15/2022 11:38:05 PM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
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To: going hot

The FBI sucked them in and they bought it. I’d be damned if I’d plead guilty to something I didn’t do.


7 posted on 04/15/2022 11:41:57 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Don't blame me, I voted for President Trump. Let's Go Brandon! FJB!)
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8 posted on 04/15/2022 11:48:49 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: FlingWingFlyer
Personally, I agree 100%.

Every day is as good as any.

I am commenting on the choices they folks have while they rot in their jail cells. They have choices, somewhat tough. After a year, it does not get easier.

If 100% not gonna do it, then spit in their eye and be done with it.

9 posted on 04/15/2022 11:54:10 PM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
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To: conservative98

with his family before January 6

Video shows Police ALLOW him To Enter Side Door – WILL BE USED IN COURT by Dershowitz

10 posted on 04/15/2022 11:56:24 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: RandFan

Dershowitz is a liberal. A liberal, not a Leftist.

He actually believes in free speech. He worked with the ACLU in the 1970s on the case that allowed the Neo Nazis to march in Skokie, Illinois.

He also worked for President Trump in the ridiculous 2nd shampeachment defense.

He will also defend one of the Jan 6, political prisoners.

He actually believes people are entitled to a legal defense - yes even if they are unpopular with Leftists.....and he’s got the guts to take on such cases himself no matter how much hate he gets for it from the Leftist screech mob. So while there are plenty of things I disagree with Dershowitz about, I have a lot of respect for him.

*IF* it were old school Liberals like Dershowitz on the other side instead of fascist Leftists, the country would be MUCH better off.


11 posted on 04/16/2022 2:05:48 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: FLT-bird

Thanks God, for Alan Dershowitz. He’s a voice of sanity as the fascists aim to close the door on basic freedoms.


12 posted on 04/16/2022 3:01:02 AM PDT by poconopundit (Hard oak fist in an Irish velvet glove: Kayleigh the Shillelagh we salute your work!)
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To: RandFan
OK,it's fine that he disagrees with those who were there on January 6th. But as a Constitutional scholar he knows that most of those charged...perhaps 95%...are guilty of nothing more than trespassing. And looking at some of the videos...videos which show Capital police basically waving people into the building...you perhaps shouldn't even be charging them with that!

Rat Party Headquarters needs an issue...particularly now that they see that The Big Guy is an absolute train wreck in every conceivable way. And they've shown over the years...starting even before "Romney doesn't pay taxes" (which Dirty Harry Reid eventually *admitted* was a lie)...that there's no lie they won't tell,no conspiracy they won't concoct.

13 posted on 04/16/2022 3:32:43 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Balloting)
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To: poconopundit

I believe the defendants have been so threatened by authorities, they have no faith that the Court will protect them. Have not orders from the Judges been ignored? Try telling the Court the plea was entered because of threats, and then get sent back to a cell where even telling about the violence begets more violence.


14 posted on 04/16/2022 3:57:38 AM PDT by healy61
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To: RandFan

Far left Rats heads must be exploding. Dersh will give a lot of exposure to this Jan 6 farce.


15 posted on 04/16/2022 4:05:07 AM PDT by duckman ( Not tired of winning!)
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To: RandFan

Hope Knowlton likes prison food.


16 posted on 04/16/2022 4:13:06 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg

(Source Federalist) The inspector general for the U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) has opened a formal investigation into whether the law enforcement agency tasked with securing the Capitol has been inappropriately surveilling elected members of Congress, their staff, and visitors to their offices, The Federalist has learned.

The opening of the investigation follows news reports and accusations from lawmakers that USCP has overstepped its bounds as it tries to recover from the January 6 riots that tarnished both the Capitol and the reputation of the law enforcement agency that was supposed to keep it safe.

In related - Pelosi’s Capitol Police are alleged to have illegally entered the office of Congressman Troy Nehls (R-TX), photographing confidential legislative products and grilling staff, according to reports. The police – now under formal investigation – stand accused of dressing up as construction workers and attempting another entry just two days later. Reports suggest Capitol Police have built intelligence dossiers on those illegally investigated.

OBSERVATION - Pelosi has converted the Capitol police into her how personal stazi. The incidents are egregious. Should the democrats lose the house in November, the incoming republicans should clean house an have heads roll (figuratively). This is another step taking govt agencies and targeting protected activity of citizens and their representatives.

In related, Representative Louie Gohmert has accused the DoJ of intercepting mail from his constituents and illegally holding it. In one case, mail was withheld from the Congressman for over four months. “It is gravely concerning that since Congressional mail is constitutionally protected under the Speech and Debate Clause of the Constitution, it could be routed, intentionally or not, through the highly partisan DOJ. This is felonious behavior.”

OVERALL OBSERVATIONS - These Capitol police and DOJ actions point to a more aggressive move by the biden/leftist govt against US citizens. If a CW2 scenario goes hot, the likelihood of active involvement by govt agencies skyrocket. It ceases to be a more culture conflict between Red and Blue, but Fed Govt vs Red citizens/states.


17 posted on 04/16/2022 4:23:12 AM PDT by Liz ("Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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On the Jan. 6 “Democrats Wallow in Victimhood Day,” Kamala know-nothing stupidly equated J6 w/ 911 and Pearl Harbor.

Kamala Harris and the Dem hit squads have spent the last 30 years attacking the United States as racist, oppressive, homophobic, xenophobic, etc.......decrying it’s formation by “evil religious white men to oppress anyone who was unwhite.”

But on Jan 6, she, and the Party of Never Miss a Political Opportunity, suddenly “saw the light.”

The knee-jerkers crassly played the “give a damn card.”

Harris: “What the extremists who roamed these halls sought to degrade and destroy was not only a building, hallowed as it is,......they were assaulting the institutions, the values, the ideals that generations of Americans have shed blood to establish and defend.”

Too bad they don’t govern as if they believed all that.


18 posted on 04/16/2022 4:25:03 AM PDT by Liz ("Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Basket_of_Deplorables

“They are POLITICAL PRISONERS!!!!”

Actually, they’re POWs.


19 posted on 04/16/2022 5:01:24 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (When government fears the people, there is liberty.)
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To: FLT-bird

Yes. Dersh is all of those things. Yet he still says he “loves” Hillary who is one of the worst criminals in America.


20 posted on 04/16/2022 5:05:52 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (When government fears the people, there is liberty.)
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