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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDo you care what Alan Dershowitz thinks about presidential powers ?
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Do you care what Alan Dershowitz thinks about presidential powers ? (Original Post)
DemocratSinceBirth
Dec 2017
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FreepFryer
(7,077 posts)1. Captain Sisko says...
question everything
(47,522 posts)2. You must be joking
As someone commented yesterday, he made his name as a court attorney and, I suppose, as a Harvard lecturer, but he is not a Constitutional expert.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,829 posts)3. Dershowitz' expertise is in criminal defense litigation
and civil liberties law. There's no question that he knows his stuff in those areas, but his defense of Trump, which I suppose is based on his defense bias, seems over the top and I don't understand why he's so vehement - except that he also really, really likes publicity and controversy.
mackdaddy
(1,528 posts)4. He is an expert on Convicted Sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein, and the Lolita Express, though