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Attorney Alan Dershowitz says that the House committee investigating January 6 violated the U.S. Constitution in several ways by referring former President Donald Trump for prosecution... ..."Congress has only legislative powers," Dershowitz argued on his show. "It does not have prosecutorial authority....I challenge anybody to show me anything in this Constitution which explicitly or even implicitly gives Congress the power to refer cases of individuals for prosecution."... .Dershowitz also pointed to Section 3 of Article 1, which states that Congress cannot pass a bill of attainder—a piece of legislation that declares .....