Alan Dershowitz to Newsmax: FBI 'Raid Is Supposed to Be a Last Resort

Newsmax ^ | Aug 8, 2022 | Eric Mack

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After FBI agents raided former President Donald Trump's residence at Mar-a-Lago on Monday, legal expert Alan Dershowitz questioned on Newsmax the justification of a "last-resort" action by the Justice Department.

"A raid is supposed to be a last resort, but this administration has used the weaponization of the justice system against its political enemies," Dershowitz told Monday's "Rob Schmitt Tonight." "It's arrested people, denied them bail, put them in handcuffs – used all kinds of techniques that are not usually applied to American citizens, and I just hope this raid has a justification.

"If it doesn't have a justification, the material seized in it will be suppressed."

The FBI and the Justice Department should not have conducted the raid on Mar-a-Lago without exhausting all other remedies, Dershowitz told host Rob Schmitt.

"I suspect it has to do with some investigations leading toward Donald Trump and some of his associates, but again, the law is clear: You don't engage in a raid unless you've exhausted all the other remedies – unless you believe that the person rated will destroy the evidence.

"Raids are not a first recourse in America. They are a last recourse. And so the government will have to show a court, eventually, that they exhausted all other possibilities, or they had a reasonable basis for believing that the evidence would be destroyed if it was sought in the normal legal course of events through subpoena."

Dershowitz, a civil liberties legal expert and advocate, lamented the Biden administration Justice Department having used raids before exhausting other remedies.

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And so the government will have to show a court, eventually, that they exhausted all other possibilities, or they had a reasonable basis for believing that the evidence would be destroyed if it was sought in the normal legal course of events through subpoena."

What court? A court in DC?

[Gritty]

The NKVD and KGB always used to raid their victims at 0-Dark Thirty in their Black Marias.

How is this not much different? Do I see a pattern here?

[Pollard]

Oh give it a damn rest. You’ve posted the same thing 20-30 times now. https://freerepublic.com/tag/by:highinfovoter/index?tab=comments;brevity=full;options=no-change

[high info voter]

Too bad.... I will speak out. Our military members carry hundreds of bullets!